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SCA: security update for codeception/codeception (GHSA-4574-qv3w-fcmg)

critical Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 409954

Description

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

 - This affects the package codeception/codeception from 4.0.0 and before 4.1.22, before 3.1.3. The
 RunProcess class can be leveraged as a gadget to run arbitrary commands on a system that is deserializing
 user input without validation. (CVE-2021-23420)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-4574-qv3w-fcmg

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 409954

Version: Revision 1.4

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 1/23/2025

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: Critical

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-23420

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/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: 9/1/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/11/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-23420

cwe: CWE-502