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SCA: security update for obsidian-dataview (GHSA-xfg5-vrmc-24wc)

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 433434

Description

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

 - Obsidian Dataview through 0.4.12-hotfix1 allows eval injection. The evalInContext function in executes
 user input, which allows an attacker to craft malicious Markdown files that will execute arbitrary code
 once opened. NOTE: 0.4.13 provides a mitigation for some use cases. (CVE-2021-42057)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-xfg5-vrmc-24wc

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 433434

Version: Revision 1.5

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 8/19/2025

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: High

Base Score: 9.3

Temporal Score: 7.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-42057

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/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: 5/24/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/4/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-42057

cwe: CWE-94