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SCA: security update for markdown-pdf (GHSA-p7c9-jqhq-vr3v)

medium Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 422788

Description

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

 - A path traversal exists in markdown-pdf version <9.0.0 that allows a user to insert a malicious html code
 that can result in reading the local files. (CVE-2018-3770)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-p7c9-jqhq-vr3v

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 422788

Version: Revision 1.4

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 3/29/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5

Percentile: 93.48

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2.1

Temporal Score: 1.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-3770

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/27/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/20/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-3770

cwe: CWE-22