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SCA: security update for codeigniter4/shield (GHSA-j72f-h752-mx4w)

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 416199

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - CodeIgniter Shield is an authentication and authorization provider for CodeIgniter 4. In affected versions
 successful login attempts are recorded with the raw tokens stored in the log table. If a malicious person
 somehow views the data in the log table they can obtain a raw token which can then be used to send a
 request with that user's authority. This issue has been addressed in version 1.0.0-beta.8. Users are
 advised to upgrade. Users unable to upgrade should disable logging for successful login attempts by the
 configuration files. (CVE-2023-48708)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-j72f-h752-mx4w

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 416199

Version: Revision 1.7

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 1/23/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.51

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:N/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-48708

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/23/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/23/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-48708

cwe: CWE-532