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SCA: security update for tar (GHSA-gfjr-3jmm-4g9v)

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 423372

Description

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

 - The tar package before 2.0.0 for Node.js allows remote attackers to write to arbitrary files via a symlink
 attack in an archive. (CVE-2015-8860)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-gfjr-3jmm-4g9v

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 423372

Version: Revision 1.6

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:N/I:P/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2015-8860

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: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: 10/24/2017

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/3/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-8860

BID: 90644

cwe: CWE-59