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SCA: security update for xmlhttprequest, xmlhttprequest-ssl (GHSA-h4j5-c7cj-74xg)

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 415465

Description

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

 - This affects the package xmlhttprequest before 1.7.0; all versions of package xmlhttprequest-ssl. Provided
 requests are sent synchronously (async=False on xhr.open), malicious user input flowing into xhr.send
 could result in arbitrary code being injected and run. (CVE-2020-28502)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-h4j5-c7cj-74xg

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 415465

Version: Revision 1.5

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: Medium

Score: 4.9

Percentile: 57.12

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Critical

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-28502

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.1

Temporal Score: 7.3

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/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: 5/4/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/5/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-28502

cwe: CWE-94