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SCA: security update for com.mikesamuel:json-sanitizer (GHSA-mm8j-9x84-m9cv)

critical Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 417030

Description

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

 - OWASP json-sanitizer before 1.2.2 may emit closing SCRIPT tags and CDATA section delimiters for crafted
 input. This allows an attacker to inject arbitrary HTML or XML into embedding documents. (CVE-2021-23899)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-mm8j-9x84-m9cv

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 417030

Version: Revision 1.3

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 1/23/2025

Updated: 8/19/2025

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Critical

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-23899

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/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: 6/16/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/13/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-23899

cwe: CWE-611