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SCA: security update for typo3/cms-backend (GHSA-5j7q-wmh7-cqhg)

medium Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 436743

Description

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

 - By exploiting the defVals parameter, attackers could bypass field‑level access checks during record
 creation in the TYPO3 backend. This gave them the ability to insert arbitrary data into prohibited exclude
 fields of a database table for which the user already has write permission for a reduced set of fields.
 This issue affects TYPO3 CMS versions 10.0.0-10.4.54, 11.0.0-11.5.48, 12.0.0-12.4.40, 13.0.0-13.4.22 and
 14.0.0-14.0.1. (CVE-2025-59020)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-5j7q-wmh7-cqhg

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 436743

Version: Revision 1.7

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 1/14/2026

Updated: 7/2/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.73

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-59020

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.7

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Threat Score: 1.3

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/13/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/13/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-59020

cwe: CWE-863