SCA: security update for magento/community-edition (GHSA-h7qw-mxrm-c6h2)

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 423324

Description

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

- The __construct function in Framework/Encryption/Crypt.php in Magento 2 uses the PHP rand function to
generate a random number for the initialization vector, which makes it easier for remote attackers to
defeat cryptographic protection mechanisms by guessing the value. (CVE-2016-6485)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-h7qw-mxrm-c6h2

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 423324

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: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2016-6485

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/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: 11/20/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/1/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-6485

cwe: CWE-327