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SCA: security update for mongoose (GHSA-8687-vv9j-hgph)

critical Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 422211

Description

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

 - Automattic Mongoose through 5.7.4 allows attackers to bypass access control (in some applications) because
 any query object with a _bsontype attribute is ignored. For example, adding "_bsontype":"a" can sometimes
 interfere with a query filter. NOTE: this CVE is about Mongoose's failure to work around this _bsontype
 special case that exists in older versions of the bson parser (aka the mongodb/js-bson project).
 (CVE-2019-17426)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-8687-vv9j-hgph

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 422211

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: 6.3

Percentile: 96.95

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Critical

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.4

Temporal Score: 4.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-17426

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.1

Temporal Score: 7.9

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/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: 10/22/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/10/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-17426

cwe: CWE-20