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SCA: security update for yarn (GHSA-5xf4-f2fq-f69j)

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 422572

Description

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

 - In Yarn before 1.21.1, the package install functionality can be abused to generate arbitrary symlinks on
 the host filesystem by using specially crafted "bin" keys. Existing files could be overwritten depending
 on the current user permission set. (CVE-2019-10773)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-5xf4-f2fq-f69j

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 422572

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: 57.12

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-10773

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/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: 2/14/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/16/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-10773

cwe: CWE-78