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SCA: security update for lambdaisland:uri (GHSA-cp4w-6x4w-v2h5)

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 413989

Description

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

 - lambdaisland/uri is a pure Clojure/ClojureScript URI library. In versions prior to 1.14.120 `authority-
 regex` allows an attacker to send malicious URLs to be parsed by the `lambdaisland/uri` and return the
 wrong authority. This issue is similar to but distinct from CVE-2020-8910. The regex in question doesn't
 handle the backslash (`\`) character in the username correctly, leading to a wrong output. ex. a payload
 of `https://example.com\\@google.com` would return that the host is `google.com`, but the correct host
 should be `example.com`. Given that the library returns the wrong authority this may be abused to bypass
 host restrictions depending on how the library is used in an application. Users are advised to upgrade.
 There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability. (CVE-2023-28628)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-cp4w-6x4w-v2h5

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 413989

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: 2.3

Percentile: 9.01

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.4

Temporal Score: 5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-28628

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.1

Temporal Score: 5.5

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:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/27/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/27/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-28628