SCA: security update for com.adobe.acs:acs-aem-commons (GHSA-7r83-w6r8-fh6w)

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 412234

Description

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

- ACS Commons version 4.9.2 (and earlier) suffers from a Reflected Cross-site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability
in version-compare and page-compare due to invalid JCR characters that are not handled correctly. An
attacker could potentially exploit this vulnerability to inject malicious JavaScript content into
vulnerable form fields and execute it within the context of the victim's browser. Exploitation of this
issue requires user interaction in order to be successful. (CVE-2021-21043)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-7r83-w6r8-fh6w

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 412234

Version: Revision 1.3

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 1/23/2025

Updated: 8/7/2025

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.0

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-2021-21043

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: 5/13/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/1/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-21043