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SCA: security update for fstream (GHSA-xf7w-r453-m56c)

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 422359

Description

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

 - fstream before 1.0.12 is vulnerable to Arbitrary File Overwrite. Extracting tarballs containing a hardlink
 to a file that already exists in the system, and a file that matches the hardlink, will overwrite the
 system's file with the contents of the extracted file. The fstream.DirWriter() function is vulnerable.
 (CVE-2019-13173)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-xf7w-r453-m56c

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 422359

Version: Revision 1.4

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: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.66

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.4

Temporal Score: 4.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-13173

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/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: 5/30/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/15/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-13173

cwe: CWE-59