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SCA: security update for ckeditor4 (GHSA-mw2c-vx6j-mg76)

medium Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 417158

Description

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

 - CKEditor4 is an open source what-you-see-is-what-you-get HTML editor. A cross-site scripting vulnerability
 vulnerability has been discovered in versions prior to 4.24.0-lts in samples that use the `preview`
 feature. All integrators that use these samples in the production code can be affected. The vulnerability
 allows an attacker to execute JavaScript code by abusing the misconfigured preview feature. It affects all
 users using the CKEditor 4 at version < 4.24.0-lts with affected samples used in a production environment.
 A fix is available in version 4.24.0-lts. (CVE-2024-24816)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-mw2c-vx6j-mg76

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 417158

Version: Revision 1.4

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: 9.07

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.4

Temporal Score: 4.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-24816

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.1

Temporal Score: 5.3

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/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: 2/7/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/7/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-24816

IAVA: 2024-A-0077-S

cwe: CWE-79