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SCA: security update for gon (GHSA-78vq-9j56-wrfr)

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 411947

Description

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

 - An issue was discovered in the gon gem before gon-6.4.0 for Ruby. MultiJson does not honor the escape_mode
 parameter to escape fields as an XSS protection mechanism. To mitigate, json_dumper.rb in gon now does
 escaping for XSS by default without relying on MultiJson. (CVE-2020-25739)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-78vq-9j56-wrfr

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 411947

Version: Revision 1.7

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: 3.2

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-25739

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.1

Temporal Score: 5.3

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:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/30/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/23/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-25739

cwe: CWE-79