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SCA: security update for isolated-vm (GHSA-2jjq-x548-rhpv)

critical Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 421778

Description

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

 - isolated-vm is a library for nodejs which gives the user access to v8's Isolate interface. In versions
 4.3.6 and prior, if the untrusted v8 cached data is passed to the API through CachedDataOptions, attackers
 can bypass the sandbox and run arbitrary code in the nodejs process. Version 4.3.7 changes the
 documentation to warn users that they should not accept `cachedData` payloads from a user.
 (CVE-2022-39266)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-2jjq-x548-rhpv

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 421778

Version: Revision 1.4

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 3/28/2025

Updated: 6/1/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Critical

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-39266

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

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:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/30/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/29/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-39266