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SCA: security update for exiftool-vendored (GHSA-cw26-7653-2rp5)

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 441239

Description

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

 - exiftool-vendored provides cross-platform Node.js access to ExifTool. Prior to 35.19.0, exiftool-vendored
 starts ExifTool in -stay_open True -@ - mode, where arguments are read from stdin one per line. In
 affected versions, several caller-supplied strings were interpolated into ExifTool arguments without
 rejecting line delimiters. A newline or carriage return inside one of those strings could split a single
 intended argument into multiple ExifTool arguments, allowing argument injection. The fix also rejects NUL
 bytes as unsafe control characters. Applications that pass attacker-controlled strings to affected APIs
 may allow an attacker to make ExifTool read files accessible to the ExifTool process, or write output to
 attacker-chosen file system paths accessible to that process. No remote code execution has been
 demonstrated. This vulnerability is fixed in 35.19.0. (CVE-2026-43893)

Solution

Update the exiftool-vendored library and its related packages to version 35.19.0 or later.

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-cw26-7653-2rp5

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 441239

Version: Revision 1.7

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 5/6/2026

Updated: 7/2/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.5

Percentile: 52.03

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.5

Temporal Score: 6.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-43893

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.2

Temporal Score: 7.1

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/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: 5/5/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/5/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-43893

cwe: CWE-88