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SCA: security update for kramdown (GHSA-mqm2-cgpr-p4m6)

critical Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 417095

Description

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

 - The kramdown gem before 2.3.0 for Ruby processes the template option inside Kramdown documents by default,
 which allows unintended read access (such as template="/etc/passwd") or unintended embedded Ruby code
 execution (such as a string that begins with template="string://<%= `). NOTE: kramdown is used in Jekyll,
 GitLab Pages, GitHub Pages, and Thredded Forum. (CVE-2020-14001)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-mqm2-cgpr-p4m6

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 417095

Version: Revision 1.7

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: 57.99

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-2020-14001

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: 8/7/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/17/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-14001

cwe: CWE-862