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SCA: security update for f2e-server (GHSA-g7j3-p357-cw8p)

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 421838

Description

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

 - `f2e-server` 1.12.11 and earlier is vulnerable to a directory traversal issue, giving an attacker access
 to the filesystem by placing "../" in the url. This is compounded by `f2e-server` requiring elevated
 privileges to run. (CVE-2017-16038)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-g7j3-p357-cw8p

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 421838

Version: Revision 1.4

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 3/28/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.18

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-16038

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/24/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/18/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-16038

cwe: CWE-22