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SCA: security update for net.sourceforge.pmd:pmd-core (GHSA-57qj-79gh-69w8)

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 410667

Description

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

 - PMD 5.8.1 and earlier processes XML external entities in ruleset files it parses as part of the analysis
 process, allowing attackers tampering it (either by direct modification or MITM attacks when using remote
 rulesets) to perform information disclosure, denial of service, or request forgery attacks. (PMD 6.x is
 unaffected because of a 2017-09-15 change.) (CVE-2019-7722)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-57qj-79gh-69w8

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 410667

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: 4.9

Percentile: 57.12

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-2019-7722

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:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/14/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/11/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-7722

cwe: CWE-611