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SCA: security update for squirrelly (GHSA-q8j6-pwqx-pm96)

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 423577

Description

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

 - Squirrelly is a template engine implemented in JavaScript that works out of the box with ExpressJS.
 Squirrelly mixes pure template data with engine configuration options through the Express render API. By
 overwriting internal configuration options remote code execution may be triggered in downstream
 applications. This issue is fixed in version 9.0.0. For complete details refer to the referenced
 GHSL-2021-023. (CVE-2021-32819)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-q8j6-pwqx-pm96

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 423577

Version: Revision 1.3

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: Medium

Score: 4.9

Percentile: 57.15

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-32819

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 7.9

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/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: 5/17/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/14/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-32819

cwe: CWE-200