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SCA: security update for tar (GHSA-j44m-qm6p-hp7m)

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 422928

Description

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

 - A vulnerability was found in node-tar before version 4.4.2 (excluding version 2.2.2). An Arbitrary File
 Overwrite issue exists when extracting a tarball containing a hardlink to a file that already exists on
 the system, in conjunction with a later plain file with the same name as the hardlink. This plain file
 content replaces the existing file content. A patch has been applied to node-tar v2.2.2). (CVE-2018-20834)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-j44m-qm6p-hp7m

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 422928

Version: Revision 1.2

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 3/29/2025

Updated: 8/11/2025

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: 6.4

Temporal Score: 5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-20834

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:N/I:H/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: 5/1/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/30/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-20834

cwe: CWE-59