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SCA: security update for npm (GHSA-ph34-pc88-72gc)

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 417525

Description

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

 - An issue was discovered in an npm 5.7.0 2018-02-21 pre-release (marked as "next: 5.7.0" and therefore
 automatically installed by an "npm upgrade -g npm" command, and also announced in the vendor's blog
 without mention of pre-release status). It might allow local users to bypass intended filesystem access
 restrictions because ownerships of /etc and /usr directories are being changed unexpectedly, related to a
 "correctMkdir" issue. (CVE-2018-7408)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-ph34-pc88-72gc

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 417525

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: 4.6

Temporal Score: 3.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-7408

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/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: 5/13/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/22/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-7408

cwe: CWE-732