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SCA: security update for prince (GHSA-cr79-9pwf-r6f5)

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 423520

Description

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

 - Prince is a Node API for executing XML/HTML to PDF renderer PrinceXML via prince(1) CLI. prince downloads
 zipped resources over HTTP, which leaves it vulnerable to MITM attacks. It may be possible to cause remote
 code execution (RCE) by swapping out the requested tarball with an attacker controlled tarball if the
 attacker is on the network or positioned in between the user and the remote server. (CVE-2016-10591)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-cr79-9pwf-r6f5

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 423520

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: 57.12

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9.3

Temporal Score: 6.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2016-10591

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.1

Temporal Score: 7.1

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

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/1/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-10591