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SCA: security update for vm2 (GHSA-7jxr-cg7f-gpgv)

critical Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 412121

Description

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

 - vm2 is a sandbox that can run untrusted code with whitelisted Node's built-in modules. Prior to version
 3.9.15, vm2 was not properly handling host objects passed to `Error.prepareStackTrace` in case of
 unhandled async errors. A threat actor could bypass the sandbox protections to gain remote code execution
 rights on the host running the sandbox. This vulnerability was patched in the release of version 3.9.15 of
 vm2. There are no known workarounds. (CVE-2023-29017)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-7jxr-cg7f-gpgv

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 412121

Version: Revision 1.6

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 1/23/2025

Updated: 8/8/2025

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 8.9

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Critical

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 8.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-29017

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 9.4

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:H/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/7/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/6/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-29017

cwe: CWE-913