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SCA: security update for joplin (GHSA-m6mf-hmrh-ph4j)

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 434557

Description

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

 - Joplin version prior to 1.0.90 contains a XSS evolving into code execution due to enabled nodeIntegration
 for that particular BrowserWindow instance where XSS was identified from vulnerability in Note content
 field - information on the fix can be found here
 https://github.com/laurent22/joplin/commit/494e235e18659574f836f84fcf9f4d4fcdcfcf89 that can result in
 executing unauthorized code within the rights in which the application is running. This attack appear to
 be exploitable via Victim synchronizing notes from the cloud services or other note-keeping services which
 contain malicious code. This vulnerability appears to have been fixed in 1.0.90 and later.
 (CVE-2018-1000534)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-m6mf-hmrh-ph4j

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 434557

Version: Revision 1.3

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: Low

Score: 2.3

Percentile: 8.67

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-1000534

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.1

Temporal Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/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: 5/14/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/26/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-1000534

cwe: CWE-79