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SCA: security update for bl (GHSA-pp7h-53gx-mx7r)

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 417626

Description

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

 - A buffer over-read vulnerability exists in bl <4.0.3, <3.0.1, <2.2.1, and <1.2.3 which could allow an
 attacker to supply user input (even typed) that if it ends up in consume() argument and can become
 negative, the BufferList state can be corrupted, tricking it into exposing uninitialized memory via
 regular .slice() calls. (CVE-2020-8244)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-pp7h-53gx-mx7r

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 417626

Version: Revision 1.5

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: 2.1

Percentile: 6.91

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.4

Temporal Score: 5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-8244

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/2/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/30/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-8244