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SCA: security update for mongo-express (GHSA-h47j-hc6x-h3qq)

critical Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 422229

Description

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

 - mongo-express before 0.54.0 is vulnerable to Remote Code Execution via endpoints that uses the `toBSON`
 method. A misuse of the `vm` dependency to perform `exec` commands in a non-safe environment.
 (CVE-2019-10758)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-h47j-hc6x-h3qq

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 422229

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: High

Score: 7

Percentile: 98.3

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Critical

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9

Temporal Score: 7.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-10758

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.9

Temporal Score: 9.2

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:F/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/30/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/24/2019

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerability Due Dates: 6/10/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-10758