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SCA: security update for handlebars (GHSA-3cqr-58rm-57f8)

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 409461

Description

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

 - Handlebars before 3.0.8 and 4.x before 4.5.3 is vulnerable to Arbitrary Code Execution. The lookup helper
 fails to properly validate templates, allowing attackers to submit templates that execute arbitrary
 JavaScript. This can be used to run arbitrary code on a server processing Handlebars templates or in a
 victim's browser (effectively serving as XSS). (CVE-2019-20920)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-3cqr-58rm-57f8

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 409461

Version: Revision 1.4

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: Medium

Score: 4.4

Percentile: 56.69

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-20920

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.1

Temporal Score: 7.3

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:L/A:L

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/10/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/30/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-20920

cwe: CWE-94