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SCA: security update for hoek (GHSA-jp4x-w63m-7wgm)

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 422579

Description

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

 - hoek node module before 4.2.0 and 5.0.x before 5.0.3 suffers from a Modification of Assumed-Immutable Data
 (MAID) vulnerability via 'merge' and 'applyToDefaults' functions, which allows a malicious user to modify
 the prototype of "Object" via __proto__, causing the addition or modification of an existing property that
 will exist on all objects. (CVE-2018-3728)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-jp4x-w63m-7wgm

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 422579

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: Medium

Score: 4.9

Percentile: 57.12

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-2018-3728

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: 4/26/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/15/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-3728

BID: 103108