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SCA: security update for powerline-gitstatus (GHSA-w67g-6gjv-c599)

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 419740

Description

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

 - powerline-gitstatus (aka Powerline Gitstatus) before 1.3.2 allows arbitrary code execution. git
 repositories can contain per-repository configuration that changes the behavior of git, including running
 arbitrary commands. When using powerline-gitstatus, changing to a directory automatically runs git
 commands in order to display information about the current repository in the prompt. If an attacker can
 convince a user to change their current directory to one controlled by the attacker, such as in a shared
 filesystem or extracted archive, powerline-gitstatus will run arbitrary commands under the attacker's
 control. NOTE: this is similar to CVE-2022-20001. (CVE-2022-42906)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-w67g-6gjv-c599

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 419740

Version: Revision 1.6

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: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.2

Temporal Score: 5.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-42906

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/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: 10/13/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/13/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-42906