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SCA: security update for yiisoft/yii2, yiisoft/yii2-dev (GHSA-cwhm-272p-3wj9)

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 434579

Description

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

 - In Yii Framework 2.x before 2.0.14, the switchIdentity function in web/User.php did not regenerate the
 CSRF token upon a change of identity. (CVE-2018-6009)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-cwhm-272p-3wj9

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 434579

Version: Revision 1.1

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 8/19/2025

Updated: 8/19/2025

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

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-6009

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 7.7

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:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/14/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/22/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-6009

cwe: CWE-352