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SCA: security update for connection-tester (GHSA-w5mp-8p8w-mhh8)

critical Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 419724

Description

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

 - This affects the package connection-tester before 0.2.1. The injection point is located in line 15 in
 index.js. The following PoC demonstrates the vulnerability: (CVE-2020-7781)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-w5mp-8p8w-mhh8

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 419724

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: 57.15

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Critical

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-7781

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/17/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/16/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-7781

cwe: CWE-78