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SCA: security update for github.com/gohugoio/hugo (GHSA-x597-9fr4-5857)

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 441410

Description

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

 - Hugo is a static site generator. From 0.43 to before 0.161.0, when building a Hugo site that uses Node-
 based asset pipelines (PostCSS, Babel, TailwindCSS), Hugo invoked the configured Node tools without
 restrictions on file system access. As a result, executing hugo against an untrusted site could allow code
 running through these tools to read or write files outside the project's working directory. Users who do
 not use PostCSS, Babel, or TailwindCSS, or who only build trusted sites, are not affected. This
 vulnerability is fixed in 0.161.0. (CVE-2026-44301)

Solution

Update the github.com/gohugoio/hugo library and its related packages to version 0.161.0 or later.

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-x597-9fr4-5857

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 441410

Version: Revision 1.10

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 5/7/2026

Updated: 7/2/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.3

Percentile: 53.66

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9.4

Temporal Score: 7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-44301

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.1

Temporal Score: 7.1

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

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.6

Threat Score: 6.2

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/6/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/6/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-44301

cwe: CWE-22