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SCA: security update for electron-packager (GHSA-q43m-ffwr-rpcc)

medium Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 423256

Description

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

 - electron-packager is a command line tool that packages Electron source code into `.app` and `.exe`
 packages. along with Electron. The `--strict-ssl` command line option in electron-packager >= 5.2.1 <=
 6.0.0 || >=6.0.0 <= 6.0.2 defaults to false if not explicitly set to true. This could allow an attacker to
 perform a man in the middle attack. (CVE-2016-10534)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-q43m-ffwr-rpcc

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 423256

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: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.18

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Low

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.2

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2016-10534

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.9

Temporal Score: 5.2

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/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: 2/18/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/21/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-10534

cwe: CWE-295