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SCA: security update for addressable (GHSA-jxhc-q857-3j6g)

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 416636

Description

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

 - Addressable is an alternative implementation to the URI implementation that is part of Ruby's standard
 library. An uncontrolled resource consumption vulnerability exists after version 2.3.0 through version
 2.7.0. Within the URI template implementation in Addressable, a maliciously crafted template may result in
 uncontrolled resource consumption, leading to denial of service when matched against a URI. In typical
 usage, templates would not normally be read from untrusted user input, but nonetheless, no previous
 security advisory for Addressable has cautioned against doing this. Users of the parsing capabilities in
 Addressable but not the URI template capabilities are unaffected. The vulnerability is patched in version
 2.8.0. As a workaround, only create Template objects from trusted sources that have been validated not to
 produce catastrophic backtracking. (CVE-2021-32740)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-jxhc-q857-3j6g

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 416636

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: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.18

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-32740

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

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:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/12/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/6/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-32740

cwe: CWE-400