nth-check is vulnerable to Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity

According to its self-reported version number, the Atlassian Jira application running on the remote host is prior to 10.3.22 or 10.4.x prior to 11.3.7. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities, including flaws in bundled third-party dependencies :

- Multiple server-side request forgery (SSRF) vulnerabilities in the bundled axios dependency. (CVE-2026-42043, CVE-2026-42038)

- A prototype pollution vulnerability in the bundled axios dependency. (CVE-2026-40175)

- An injection vulnerability in the bundled Apache Tomcat dependency. (CVE-2026-41293)

- A broken authentication and session management vulnerability in the bundled Apache Tomcat dependency. (CVE-2026-43512)

- An improper authorization vulnerability in the bundled Apache Tomcat dependency. (CVE-2026-43515)

- Multiple HTTP request smuggling vulnerabilities in the bundled Netty dependency. (CVE-2026-42584, CVE-2026-42585, CVE-2026-33870)

- Multiple injection vulnerabilities in the bundled axios dependency. (CVE-2026-42264, CVE-2026-42035, CVE-2026-42033)

- A denial of service vulnerability in the bundled Netty dependency. (CVE-2026-33871)

- A remote code execution vulnerability in the bundled react-router dependency. (CVE-2026-42211)

- A cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the bundled turbo-stream dependency. (CVE-2026-34077)

- An information disclosure vulnerability in the bundled Apache Tomcat dependency. (CVE-2026-34487)

- A denial of service vulnerability in the bundled Apache Tomcat dependency. (CVE-2026-41284)

- A denial of service vulnerability in the bundled nth-check dependency. (CVE-2021-3803)

- A business logic vulnerability in the bundled Apache Tomcat dependency. (CVE-2026-43513)

- Multiple denial of service vulnerabilities in the bundled minimatch dependency. (CVE-2026-27903, CVE-2026-27904)

- A denial of service vulnerability in the bundled react-router dependency. (CVE-2026-42342)

- A cryptographic vulnerability in the bundled Apache Tomcat dependency. (CVE-2026-34486)

- A remote code execution vulnerability in the bundled axios dependency. (CVE-2026-44495)

Note that the scanner has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

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

  - nth-check is vulnerable to Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity (CVE-2021-3803)

The version of Splunk installed on the remote host is prior to tested version. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SVD-2023-0808 advisory.

  - The go command may execute arbitrary code at build time when using cgo. This may occur when running go     get on a malicious module, or when running any other command which builds untrusted code. This is can by     triggered by linker flags, specified via a #cgo LDFLAGS directive. Flags containing embedded spaces are     mishandled, allowing disallowed flags to be smuggled through the LDFLAGS sanitization by including them in     the argument of another flag. This only affects usage of the gccgo compiler. (CVE-2023-29405)

  - When curl < 7.84.0 saves cookies, alt-svc and hsts data to local files, it makes the operation atomic by     finalizing the operation with a rename from a temporary name to the final target file name.In that rename     operation, it might accidentally *widen* the permissions for the target file, leaving the updated file     accessible to more users than intended. (CVE-2022-32207)

  - decode-uri-component 0.2.0 is vulnerable to Improper Input Validation resulting in DoS. (CVE-2022-38900)

  - The got package before 12.1.0 (also fixed in 11.8.5) for Node.js allows a redirect to a UNIX socket.
    (CVE-2022-33987)

  - Prototype pollution vulnerability in function parseQuery in parseQuery.js in webpack loader-utils via the     name variable in parseQuery.js. This affects all versions prior to 1.4.1 and 2.0.3. (CVE-2022-37601)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The version of Splunk installed on the remote host is prior to tested version. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SVD-2023-0613 advisory.

  - A prototype pollution vulnerability exists in the function copy in dom.js in the xmldom (published as     @xmldom/xmldom) package before 0.8.3 for Node.js via the p variable. NOTE: the vendor states we are in     the process of marking this report as invalid; however, some third parties takes the position that A     prototype injection/Prototype pollution is not just when global objects are polluted with recursive merge     or deep cloning but also when a target object is polluted. (CVE-2022-37616)

  - When curl < 7.84.0 saves cookies, alt-svc and hsts data to local files, it makes the operation atomic by     finalizing the operation with a rename from a temporary name to the final target file name.In that rename     operation, it might accidentally *widen* the permissions for the target file, leaving the updated file     accessible to more users than intended. (CVE-2022-32207)

  - An issue was discovered in libxml2 before 2.10.3. When parsing a multi-gigabyte XML document with the     XML_PARSE_HUGE parser option enabled, several integer counters can overflow. This results in an attempt to     access an array at a negative 2GB offset, typically leading to a segmentation fault. (CVE-2022-40303)

  - An issue was discovered in libxml2 before 2.10.3. Certain invalid XML entity definitions can corrupt a     hash table key, potentially leading to subsequent logic errors. In one case, a double-free can be     provoked. (CVE-2022-40304)

  - There is a type confusion vulnerability relating to X.400 address processing inside an X.509 GeneralName.
    X.400 addresses were parsed as an ASN1_STRING but the public structure definition for GENERAL_NAME     incorrectly specified the type of the x400Address field as ASN1_TYPE. This field is subsequently     interpreted by the OpenSSL function GENERAL_NAME_cmp as an ASN1_TYPE rather than an ASN1_STRING. When CRL     checking is enabled (i.e. the application sets the X509_V_FLAG_CRL_CHECK flag), this vulnerability may     allow an attacker to pass arbitrary pointers to a memcmp call, enabling them to read memory contents or     enact a denial of service. In most cases, the attack requires the attacker to provide both the certificate     chain and CRL, neither of which need to have a valid signature. If the attacker only controls one of these     inputs, the other input must already contain an X.400 address as a CRL distribution point, which is     uncommon. As such, this vulnerability is most likely to only affect applications which have implemented     their own functionality for retrieving CRLs over a network. (CVE-2023-0286)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Ubuntu 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-6114-1 advisory.

    Yeting Li discovered that nth-check incorrectly handled certain inputs. If a user or an automated system     were tricked into opening a specially crafted input file, a remote attacker could possibly use this issue     to cause a denial of service.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Debian 10 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the dla-3428 advisory.

    - -------------------------------------------------------------------------     Debian LTS Advisory DLA-3428-1                debian-lts@lists.debian.org     https://www.debian.org/lts/security/                    Bastien Roucaris     May 20, 2023                                  https://wiki.debian.org/LTS
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    Package        : node-nth-check     Version        : 1.0.1-1+deb10u1     CVE ID         : CVE-2021-3803     Debian Bug     :

    node-nth-check, a NodeJS module module used to parse and compile nth-checks,     as they are found in CSS 3's nth-child() and nth-last-of-type().

    This module was vulnerable to a regular expression denial of service     used for parsing.

    For Debian 10 buster, this problem has been fixed in version     1.0.1-1+deb10u1.

    We recommend that you upgrade your node-nth-check packages.

    For the detailed security status of node-nth-check please refer to     its security tracker page at:
    https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/node-nth-check

    Further information about Debian LTS security advisories, how to apply     these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be     found at: https://wiki.debian.org/LTS

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Debian security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Type	Severity
115704	Atlassian Jira 10.4.x < 11.3.7 Multiple Vulnerabilities	Web App Scanning	Component Vulnerability	Version Based	high
115703	Atlassian Jira < 10.3.22 Multiple Vulnerabilities	Web App Scanning	Component Vulnerability	Version Based	high
418837	SCA: security update for nth-check (GHSA-rp65-9cf3-cjxr)	Tenable Cloud Security	SCA Checks	Local	high
418837	SCA: security update for nth-check (GHSA-rp65-9cf3-cjxr)	Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security	SCA Checks	Local	high
194928	Splunk Enterprise 8.2.0 < 8.2.12, 9.0.0 < 9.0.6, 9.1.0 < 9.1.1 (SVD-2023-0808)	Nessus	CGI abuses	Combined	critical
194919	Splunk Enterprise < 8.1.14, 8.2.0 < 8.2.11, 9.0.0 < 9.0.5 (SVD-2023-0613)	Nessus	CGI abuses	Combined	critical
176480	Ubuntu 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS : nth-check vulnerability (USN-6114-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	Local	high
176190	Debian dla-3428 : node-nth-check - security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	Local	high

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