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SCA: security update for papermerge (GHSA-9w49-m7xh-5r39)

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 413493

Description

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

 - Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in Papermerge before 1.5.2 allow remote attackers to
 inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the rename, tag, upload, or create folder function. The payload
 can be in a folder, a tag, or a document's filename. If email consumption is configured in Papermerge, a
 malicious document can be sent by email and is automatically uploaded into the Papermerge web application.
 Therefore, no authentication is required to exploit XSS if email consumption is configured. Otherwise
 authentication is required. (CVE-2020-29456)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-9w49-m7xh-5r39

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 413493

Version: Revision 1.9

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-2020-29456

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Threat Score: 1.3

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/20/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/2/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-29456

cwe: CWE-79