SCA: security update for composer/composer (GHSA-frqg-7g38-6gcf)

critical Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 414684

Description

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

- Composer is an open source dependency manager for the PHP language. In affected versions windows users
running Composer to install untrusted dependencies are subject to command injection and should upgrade
their composer version. Other OSs and WSL are not affected. The issue has been resolved in composer
versions 1.10.23 and 2.1.9. There are no workarounds for this issue. (CVE-2021-41116)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-frqg-7g38-6gcf

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 414684

Version: Revision 1.7

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: 57.12

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-41116

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

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:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/5/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/5/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-41116

cwe: CWE-77