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SCA: security update for mercurius (GHSA-273r-rm8g-7f3x)
high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 408754
Description
There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:- Mercurius is a GraphQL adapter for Fastify. Any users from [email protected] to 8.11.1 are subjected to a
denial of service attack by sending a malformed JSON to `/graphql` unless they are using a custom error
handler. The vulnerability has been fixed in https://github.com/mercurius-js/mercurius/pull/678 and
shipped as v8.11.2. As a workaround users may use a custom error handler. (CVE-2021-43801)
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Plugin Details
Severity: High
ID: 408754
Version: Revision 1.5
Type: Local
Family: SCA Checks
Published: 1/23/2025
Updated: 7/2/2026
Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security
Risk Information
VPR
Risk Factor: Low
Score: 3
Percentile: 23.18
Vendor
Vendor Severity: High
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: Medium
Base Score: 5
Temporal Score: 3.7
Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-43801
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: 12/13/2021
Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/13/2021
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2021-43801
cwe: CWE-754