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SCA: security update for xerces:xercesImpl (GHSA-7j4h-8wpf-rqfh)

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 412101

Description

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

 - XMLscanner.java in Apache Xerces2 Java Parser before 2.12.0, as used in the Java Runtime Environment (JRE)
 in IBM Java 5.0 before 5.0 SR16-FP3, 6 before 6 SR14, 6.0.1 before 6.0.1 SR6, and 7 before 7 SR5 as well
 as Oracle Java SE 7u40 and earlier, Java SE 6u60 and earlier, Java SE 5.0u51 and earlier, JRockit R28.2.8
 and earlier, JRockit R27.7.6 and earlier, Java SE Embedded 7u40 and earlier, and possibly other products
 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via vectors related to XML attribute names.
 (CVE-2013-4002)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-7j4h-8wpf-rqfh

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 412101

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: 3.2

Percentile: 50.81

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.1

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2013-4002

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Temporal Score: 4.6

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/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: 5/13/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/17/2013

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2013-4002

BID: 61310

cwe: CWE-112