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SCA: security update for electron (GHSA-4w88-rjj3-x7wp)

critical Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 423044

Description

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

 - Based on details posted by the ElectronJS team; A remote code execution vulnerability has been discovered
 in Google Chromium that affects all recent versions of Electron. Any Electron app that accesses remote
 content is vulnerable to this exploit, regardless of whether the [sandbox
 option](https://electron.atom.io/docs/api/sandbox-option) is enabled. (CVE-2017-16151)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-4w88-rjj3-x7wp

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 423044

Version: Revision 1.3

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: 4.9

Percentile: 57.15

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Critical

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-16151

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/24/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/28/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-16151

cwe: CWE-94