Detections
Analytics

SCA: security update for yarn (GHSA-8mfc-v7wv-p62g)

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 412756

Description

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

 - Arbitrary filesystem write vulnerability in Yarn before 1.22.0 allows attackers to write to any path on
 the filesystem and potentially lead to arbitrary code execution by forcing the user to install a malicious
 package. (CVE-2020-8131)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-8mfc-v7wv-p62g

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 412756

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: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.1

Temporal Score: 4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-8131

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/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: 2/9/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/24/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-8131

cwe: CWE-22