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SCA: security update for jQuery.Validation, jquery-validation (GHSA-jxwx-85vp-gvwm)

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 416642

Description

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

 - The jQuery Validation Plugin provides drop-in validation for your existing forms. It is published as an
 npm package "jquery-validation". jquery-validation before version 1.19.3 contains one or more regular
 expressions that are vulnerable to ReDoS (Regular Expression Denial of Service). This is fixed in 1.19.3.
 (CVE-2021-21252)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-jxwx-85vp-gvwm

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 416642

Version: Revision 1.6

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-2021-21252

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: 1/13/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/13/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-21252

cwe: CWE-400