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SCA: security update for colorscore (GHSA-73qw-ww62-m54x)

critical Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 421828

Description

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

 - The initialize method in the Histogram class in lib/colorscore/histogram.rb in the colorscore gem before
 0.0.5 for Ruby allows context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code via shell metacharacters in
 the (1) image_path, (2) colors, or (3) depth variable. (CVE-2015-7541)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-73qw-ww62-m54x

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 421828

Version: Revision 1.5

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 3/28/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5

Percentile: 95.09

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Critical

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2015-7541

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 8.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/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: 10/24/2017

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/4/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-7541

BID: 79828

cwe: CWE-77