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SCA: security update for systeminformation (GHSA-jff2-qjw8-5476)

critical Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 416317

Description

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

 - systeminformation is an open source system and OS information library for node.js. A command injection
 vulnerability has been discovered in versions of systeminformation prior to 5.6.4. The issue has been
 fixed with a parameter check on user input. Please upgrade to version >= 5.6.4. If you cannot upgrade, be
 sure to check or sanitize service parameters that are passed to si.inetLatency(), si.inetChecksite(),
 si.services(), si.processLoad() and other commands. Only allow strings, reject any arrays. String
 sanitation works as expected. (CVE-2021-21388)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-jff2-qjw8-5476

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 416317

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: 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-2021-21388

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: 4/6/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/6/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-21388