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SCA: security update for codecov (GHSA-5q88-cjfq-g2mh)

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 422181

Description

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

 - codecov-node npm module before 3.6.5 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands.The value
 provided as part of the gcov-root argument is executed by the exec function within lib/codecov.js. This
 vulnerability exists due to an incomplete fix of CVE-2020-7596. (CVE-2020-7597)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-5q88-cjfq-g2mh

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 422181

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-2020-7597

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: 2/19/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/17/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-7597

cwe: CWE-78