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SCA: security update for @thi.ng/egf (GHSA-rj44-gpjc-29r7)

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 418769

Description

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

 - Potential for arbitrary code execution in npm package @thi.ng/egf `#gpg`-tagged property values (only if
 `decrypt: true` option is enabled). PR with patch has been submitted and will has been released as of
 v0.4.0 By default the EGF parse functions do NOT attempt to decrypt values (since GPG only available in
 non-browser env). However, if GPG encrypted values are used/required: 1. Perform a regex search for
 `#gpg`-tagged values in the EGF source file/string and check for backtick (\`) chars in the encrypted
 value string 2. Replace/remove them or skip parsing if present. (CVE-2021-21412)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-rj44-gpjc-29r7

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 418769

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: Medium

Score: 4.9

Percentile: 57.12

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 4.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-21412

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 7.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/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: 4/6/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/30/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-21412

cwe: CWE-78