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SCA: security update for gitbook (GHSA-5h5r-23r4-m87h)

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 410843

Description

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

 - GitBook is a command line tool (and Node.js library) for building beautiful books using GitHub/Git and
 Markdown (or AsciiDoc). Stored Cross-Site-Scripting (XSS) is possible in GitBook before 3.2.2 by including
 code outside of backticks in any ebook. This code will be executed on the online reader. (CVE-2017-16019)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-5h5r-23r4-m87h

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 410843

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: 2.3

Percentile: 8.67

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-16019

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.1

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/1/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/28/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-16019

cwe: CWE-79