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SCA: security update for hot-formula-parser (GHSA-rc77-xxq6-4mff)

critical Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 422461

Description

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

 - grammar-parser.jison in the hot-formula-parser package before 3.0.1 for Node.js is vulnerable to arbitrary
 code injection. The package fails to sanitize values passed to the parse function and concatenates them in
 an eval call. If a value of the formula is taken from user-controlled input, it may allow attackers to run
 arbitrary commands on the server. (CVE-2020-6836)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-rc77-xxq6-4mff

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 422461

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: 4.9

Percentile: 57.15

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Critical

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-6836

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: 5/6/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/11/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-6836

cwe: CWE-94