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SCA: security update for mercurius (GHSA-cm8h-q92v-xcfc)

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 413966

Description

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

 - Mercurius is a GraphQL adapter for Fastify. Any users of Mercurius until version 10.5.0 are subjected to a
 denial of service attack by sending a malformed packet over WebSocket to `/graphql`. This issue was
 patched in #940. As a workaround, users can disable subscriptions. (CVE-2023-22477)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-cm8h-q92v-xcfc

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 413966

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: 3

Percentile: 23.18

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.1

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-22477

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/9/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/9/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-22477

cwe: CWE-248