SCA: security update for libpng (GHSA-qwwr-qc2p-6283)

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 418388

Description

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

- An issue has been found in third-party PNM decoding associated with libpng 1.6.35. It is a stack-based
buffer overflow in the function get_token in pnm2png.c in pnm2png. (CVE-2018-14550)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-qwwr-qc2p-6283

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 418388

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: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-14550

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 7.9

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

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/22/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/10/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-14550

cwe: CWE-787