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SCA: security update for ckeditor4 (GHSA-m94c-37g6-cjhc)

medium Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 416861

Description

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

 - ckeditor is an open source WYSIWYG HTML editor with rich content support. A potential vulnerability has
 been discovered in CKEditor 4 [Fake Objects](https://ckeditor.com/cke4/addon/fakeobjects) package. The
 vulnerability allowed to inject malformed Fake Objects HTML, which could result in executing JavaScript
 code. It affects all users using the CKEditor 4 plugins listed above at version < 4.16.2. The problem has
 been recognized and patched. The fix will be available in version 4.16.2. (CVE-2021-37695)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-m94c-37g6-cjhc

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 416861

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: Low

Score: 2.3

Percentile: 8.67

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 3.5

Temporal Score: 2.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-37695

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.4

Temporal Score: 4.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/23/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/12/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-37695

IAVA: 2021-A-0384-S

cwe: CWE-79