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SCA: security update for github.com/gohugoio/hugo (GHSA-8j34-9876-pvfq)

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 431932

Description

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

 - Hugo is a fast and Flexible Static Site Generator built in Go. Hugo depends on Go's `os/exec` for certain
 features, e.g. for rendering of Pandoc documents if these binaries are found in the system `%PATH%` on
 Windows. In Hugo before version 0.79.1, if a malicious file with the same name (`exe` or `bat`) is found
 in the current working directory at the time of running `hugo`, the malicious command will be invoked
 instead of the system one. Windows users who run `hugo` inside untrusted Hugo sites are affected. Users
 should upgrade to Hugo v0.79.1. Other than avoiding untrusted Hugo sites, there is no workaround.
 (CVE-2020-26284)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-8j34-9876-pvfq

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 431932

Version: Revision 1.1

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 8/7/2025

Updated: 8/7/2025

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.3

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.5

Temporal Score: 6.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-26284

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.5

Temporal Score: 7.6

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/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: 6/23/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/21/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-26284

cwe: CWE-78