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SCA: security update for vm2 (GHSA-ch3r-j5x3-6q2m)

critical Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 413906

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. There exists a
 vulnerability in exception sanitization of vm2 for versions up to 3.9.16, allowing attackers to raise an
 unsanitized host exception inside `handleException()` which can be used to escape the sandbox and run
 arbitrary code in host context. This vulnerability was patched in the release of version `3.9.17` of
 `vm2`. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability. Users are advised to upgrade.
 (CVE-2023-30547)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-ch3r-j5x3-6q2m

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 413906

Version: Revision 1.6

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: 5

Percentile: 94.19

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-2023-30547

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 9

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/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: 4/20/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/17/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-30547

cwe: CWE-74