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SCA: security update for protobufjs (GHSA-wcpc-wj8m-hjx6)

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 443192

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 7.6.1 and 8.4.1,
 protobufjs could recurse without a depth limit while converting decoded messages to plain objects or JSON.
 This affected generated toObject() conversion and the custom google.protobuf.Any JSON conversion path. A
 crafted protobuf binary payload containing deeply nested Any values could cause the JavaScript call stack
 to be exhausted during conversion to JSON. This vulnerability is fixed in 7.6.1 and 8.4.1.
 (CVE-2026-48712)

Solution

Update the protobufjs library and its related packages to version 7.6.1 or later.

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-wcpc-wj8m-hjx6

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 443192

Version: Revision 1.4

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 6/15/2026

Updated: 7/6/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.76

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

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-2026-48712

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: 6/15/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/15/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-48712

cwe: CWE-674