SCA: security update for com.jcraft:jsch (GHSA-q446-82vq-w674)

medium Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 417856

Description

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

- Directory traversal vulnerability in JCraft JSch before 0.1.54 on Windows, when the mode is
ChannelSftp.OVERWRITE, allows remote SFTP servers to write to arbitrary files via a ..\ (dot dot
backslash) in a response to a recursive GET command. (CVE-2016-5725)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-q446-82vq-w674

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 417856

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: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.18

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2016-5725

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.9

Temporal Score: 5.3

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/13/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/31/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-5725

BID: 93100

cwe: CWE-22