SCA: security update for hermes-engine (GHSA-gmpm-xp43-f7g6)

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 415209

Description

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

- An Integer signedness error in the JavaScript Interpreter in Facebook Hermes prior to commit
2c7af7ec481ceffd0d14ce2d7c045e475fd71dc6 allows attackers to cause a denial of service attack or a
potential RCE via crafted JavaScript. Note that this is only exploitable if the application using Hermes
permits evaluation of untrusted JavaScript. Hence, most React Native applications are not affected.
(CVE-2020-1913)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-gmpm-xp43-f7g6

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 415209

Version: Revision 1.5

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: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-1913

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.1

Temporal Score: 7.1

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/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: 5/24/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/9/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-1913