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SCA: security update for atob (GHSA-8w4h-3cm3-2pm2)

critical Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 421958

Description

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

 - atob 2.0.3 and earlier allocates uninitialized Buffers when number is passed in input on Node.js 4.x and
 below. (CVE-2018-3745)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-8w4h-3cm3-2pm2

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 421958

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: Medium

Score: 4.3

Percentile: 53.06

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Critical

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.4

Temporal Score: 5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-3745

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.1

Temporal Score: 8.2

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/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: 10/9/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/29/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-3745

cwe: CWE-125