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SCA: security update for defaults-deep (GHSA-cqp5-m4pq-gfgp)

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 421925

Description

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

 - defaults-deep node module before 0.2.4 suffers from a Modification of Assumed-Immutable Data (MAID)
 vulnerability, which allows a malicious user to modify the prototype of "Object" via __proto__, causing
 the addition or modification of an existing property that will exist on all objects. (CVE-2018-3723)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-cqp5-m4pq-gfgp

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 421925

Version: Revision 1.3

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: 4.9

Percentile: 57.15

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.1

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-3723

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 7.9

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/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: 7/26/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/24/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-3723

cwe: CWE-471