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SCA: security update for @dependencytrack/frontend (GHSA-c33w-pm52-mqvf)

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 413603

Description

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

 - @dependencytrack/frontend is a Single Page Application (SPA) used in Dependency-Track, an open source
 Component Analysis platform that allows organizations to identify and reduce risk in the software supply
 chain. Due to the common practice of providing vulnerability details in markdown format, the Dependency-
 Track frontend renders them using the JavaScript library Showdown. Showdown does not have any XSS
 countermeasures built in, and versions before 4.6.1 of the Dependency-Track frontend did not encode or
 sanitize Showdown's output. This made it possible for arbitrary JavaScript included in vulnerability
 details via HTML attributes to be executed in context of the frontend. Actors with the
 `VULNERABILITY_MANAGEMENT` permission can exploit this weakness by creating or editing a custom
 vulnerability and providing XSS payloads in any of the following fields: Description, Details,
 Recommendation, or References. The payload will be executed for users with the `VIEW_PORTFOLIO` permission
 when browsing to the modified vulnerability's page. Alternatively, malicious JavaScript could be
 introduced via any of the vulnerability databases mirrored by Dependency-Track. However, this attack
 vector is highly unlikely, and the maintainers of Dependency-Track are not aware of any occurrence of this
 happening. Note that the `Vulnerability Details` element of the `Audit Vulnerabilities` tab in the project
 view is not affected. The issue has been fixed in frontend version 4.6.1. (CVE-2022-39350)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-c33w-pm52-mqvf

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 413603

Version: Revision 1.5

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 1/23/2025

Updated: 6/1/2026

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: 5.5

Temporal Score: 4.1

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-39350

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.4

Temporal Score: 4.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/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: 10/25/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/25/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-39350

cwe: CWE-79