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SCA: security update for HaemmerElectronics.SeppPenner.WindowsHello (GHSA-wvpv-ffcv-r6cw)

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 423020

Description

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

 - The WindowsHello open source library (NuGet HaemmerElectronics.SeppPenner.WindowsHello), before version
 1.0.4, has a vulnerability where encrypted data could potentially be decrypted without needing
 authentication. If the library is used to encrypt text and write the output to a txt file, another
 executable could be able to decrypt the text using the static method NCryptDecrypt from this same library
 without the need to use Windows Hello Authentication again. This has been patched in version 1.0.4.
 (CVE-2020-11005)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-wvpv-ffcv-r6cw

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 423020

Version: Revision 1.4

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 3/29/2025

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: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2.1

Temporal Score: 1.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-11005

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 4.8

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

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/14/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/14/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-11005

cwe: CWE-288