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SCA: security update for protobufjs (GHSA-jggg-4jg4-v7c6)

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 442148

Description

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

 - protobufjs compiles protobuf definitions into JavaScript (JS) functions. Prior to 7.5.8 and 8.2.0,
 protobufjs could recurse without a depth limit while expanding nested JSON descriptors through
 Root.fromJSON() and Namespace.addJSON(). A crafted JSON descriptor with deeply nested namespace
 definitions could cause the JavaScript call stack to be exhausted during descriptor loading. This
 vulnerability is fixed in 7.5.8 and 8.2.0. (CVE-2026-45740)

Solution

Update the protobufjs library and its related packages to version 7.5.8 or later.

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-jggg-4jg4-v7c6

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 442148

Version: Revision 1.3

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 5/19/2026

Updated: 7/2/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.69

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 5.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-45740

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/19/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/13/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-45740

cwe: CWE-674