jmespath.rb (aka JMESPath for Ruby) before 1.6.1 uses JSON.load in a situation where JSON.parse is preferable.

An update of the rubygem package has been released.

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - jmespath.rb (aka JMESPath for Ruby) before 1.6.1 uses JSON.load in a situation where JSON.parse is     preferable. (CVE-2022-32511)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

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

  - jmespath.rb (aka JMESPath for Ruby) before 1.6.1 uses JSON.load in a situation where JSON.parse is
    preferable. (CVE-2022-32511)

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
237066	Photon OS 4.0: Rubygem PHSA-2025-4.0-0804	Nessus	PhotonOS Local Security Checks	critical
224728	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2022-32511	Nessus	Misc.	critical
410752	SCA: security update for jmespath (GHSA-5c5f-7vfq-3732)	Tenable Cloud Security	SCA Checks	critical
410752	SCA: security update for jmespath (GHSA-5c5f-7vfq-3732)	Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security	SCA Checks	critical

Detections

Analytics

CVE-2022-32511

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