pdoc provides API Documentation for Python Projects. Documentation generated with `pdoc --math` linked to JavaScript files from polyfill.io. The polyfill.io CDN has been sold and now serves malicious code. This issue has been fixed in pdoc 14.5.1.

The remote SUSE Linux SLES15 / openSUSE 15 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2025:02037-1 advisory.

    - CVE-2024-38526: Fixed Polyfill Supply Chain Attack (bsc#1227690).

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

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue 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:

  - pdoc provides API Documentation for Python Projects. Documentation generated with `pdoc --math` linked to
    JavaScript files from polyfill.io. The polyfill.io CDN has been sold and now serves malicious code. This
    issue has been fixed in pdoc 14.5.1. (CVE-2024-38526)

pdoc provides API Documentation for Python Projects. Documentation generated with `pdoc --math` linked to JavaScript files from polyfill.io. The polyfill.io CDN has been sold and now serves malicious code. This issue has been fixed in pdoc 14.5.1.

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

The `polyfill.js` file is a popular open-source library to ensure old browsers compatibility when evaluating JavaScript code. Starting February 2024, the domain `polyfill.io` and the related GitHub account have been purchased by a malicious threat actor to inject malwares in all web applications relying on, at least, the `cdn.polyfill.io` domain. The `polyfill.js` file cannot be trusted anymore as the malicious code could have been redistributed on other CDNs or locally copied in various plugins.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Type	Severity
240552	SUSE SLES15 / openSUSE 15 Security Update : ghc-pandoc (SUSE-SU-2025:02037-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	Local	high
411031	SCA: security update for pdoc (GHSA-5vgj-ggm4-fg62)	Tenable Cloud Security	SCA Checks	Local	high
411031	SCA: security update for pdoc (GHSA-5vgj-ggm4-fg62)	Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security	SCA Checks	Local	high
212710	Pdoc Python Library <= 14.5.1 (CVE-2024-38526)	Nessus	Misc.	Local	high
114357	Polyfill Detected	Web App Scanning	Component Vulnerability	Check Based	medium

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