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SCA: security update for handlebars (GHSA-62gr-4qp9-h98f)

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 411117

Description

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

 - Handlebars before 4.4.5 allows Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) because of eager matching. The
 parser may be forced into an endless loop while processing crafted templates. This may allow attackers to
 exhaust system resources. (CVE-2019-20922)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-62gr-4qp9-h98f

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 411117

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: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.18

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 5.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-20922

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: 2/10/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/30/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-20922

cwe: CWE-400