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SCA: security update for jsonpath-plus (GHSA-pppg-cpfq-h7wr)

critical Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 417642

Description

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

 - All versions of the package jsonpath-plus are vulnerable to Remote Code Execution (RCE) due to improper
 input sanitization. An attacker can execute aribitrary code on the system by exploiting the unsafe default
 usage of vm in Node. **Note:** There were several attempts to fix it in versions
 [10.0.0-10.1.0](https://github.com/JSONPath-Plus/JSONPath/compare/v9.0.0...v10.1.0) but it could still be
 exploited using [different payloads](https://github.com/JSONPath-Plus/JSONPath/issues/226).
 (CVE-2024-21534)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-pppg-cpfq-h7wr

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 417642

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: 4.9

Percentile: 57.87

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Critical

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-21534

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.8

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

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.3

Threat Score: 8.9

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:P

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/11/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/11/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-21534

cwe: CWE-94