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SCA: security update for hekto (GHSA-x26f-26qw-hhhx)

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 422442

Description

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

 - hekto node module suffers from a Path Traversal vulnerability due to lack of validation of file, which
 allows a malicious user to read content of any file with known path. (CVE-2018-3725)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-x26f-26qw-hhhx

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 422442

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-2018-3725

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: 7/26/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/24/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-3725

cwe: CWE-22