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SCA: security update for file-type (GHSA-j47w-4g3g-c36v)

medium Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 438809

Description

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

 - file-type detects the file type of a file, stream, or data. From 20.0.0 to 21.3.1, a crafted ZIP file can
 trigger excessive memory growth during type detection in file-type when using fileTypeFromBuffer(),
 fileTypeFromBlob(), or fileTypeFromFile(). The ZIP inflate output limit is enforced for stream-based
 detection, but not for known-size inputs. As a result, a small compressed ZIP can cause file-type to
 inflate and process a much larger payload while probing ZIP-based formats such as OOXML. This
 vulnerability is fixed in 21.3.2. (CVE-2026-32630)

Solution

Update the file-type library and its related packages to version 21.3.2 or later.

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-j47w-4g3g-c36v

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 438809

Version: Revision 1.9

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 3/14/2026

Updated: 7/2/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 1.2

Percentile: 0.01

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-32630

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Temporal Score: 4.8

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

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/13/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/13/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-32630