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SCA: security update for hermes-engine (GHSA-pf27-929j-9pmm)

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 417464

Description

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

 - An out-of-bounds read/write vulnerability when executing lazily compiled inner generator functions in
 Facebook Hermes prior to commit 091835377369c8fd5917d9b87acffa721ad2a168 allows attackers to potentially
 execute arbitrary code via crafted JavaScript. Note that this is only exploitable if the application using
 Hermes permits evaluation of untrusted JavaScript. Hence, most React Native applications are not affected.
 (CVE-2020-1912)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-pf27-929j-9pmm

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 417464

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: Medium

Score: 6.9

Percentile: 97.35

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-1912

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.1

Temporal Score: 7.1

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

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/24/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/9/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-1912