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SCA: security update for jsmitty12/phpwhois (GHSA-c95f-27gx-6vq9)

critical Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 433890

Description

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

 - phpWhois allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted whois record. (CVE-2015-5243)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-c95f-27gx-6vq9

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 433890

Version: Revision 1.2

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 8/19/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.9

Percentile: 57.58

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Critical

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2015-5243

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.8

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:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/14/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/20/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-5243

cwe: CWE-94