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SCA: security update for com.mikesamuel:json-sanitizer (GHSA-g8jj-899q-8x3j)

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 414990

Description

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

 - OWASP json-sanitizer before 1.2.1 allows XSS. An attacker who controls a substring of the input JSON, and
 controls another substring adjacent to a SCRIPT element in which the output is embedded as JavaScript, may
 be able to confuse the HTML parser as to where the SCRIPT element ends, and cause non-script content to be
 interpreted as JavaScript. (CVE-2020-13973)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-g8jj-899q-8x3j

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 414990

Version: Revision 1.4

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 1/23/2025

Updated: 1/27/2026

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.8

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-13973

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: 2/10/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/9/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-13973

cwe: CWE-79