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SCA: security update for codeigniter4/shield (GHSA-v427-c49j-8w6x)

medium Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 419044

Description

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

 - CodeIgniter Shield is an authentication and authorization provider for CodeIgniter 4. The `secretKey`
 value is an important key for HMAC SHA256 authentication and in affected versions was stored in the
 database in cleartext form. If a malicious person somehow had access to the data in the database, they
 could use the key and secretKey for HMAC SHA256 authentication to send requests impersonating that
 corresponding user. This issue has been addressed in version 1.0.0-beta.8. Users are advised to upgrade.
 There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability. (CVE-2023-48707)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-v427-c49j-8w6x

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 419044

Version: Revision 1.6

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: 23.51

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-48707

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/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: 11/23/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/23/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-48707

cwe: CWE-312