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SCA: security update for jsrsasign (GHSA-p8c3-7rj8-q963)

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 417399

Description

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

 - An issue was discovered in the jsrsasign package through 8.0.18 for Node.js. It allows a malleability in
 ECDSA signatures by not checking overflows in the length of a sequence and '0' characters appended or
 prepended to an integer. The modified signatures are verified as valid. This could have a security-
 relevant impact if an application relied on a single canonical signature. (CVE-2020-14966)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-p8c3-7rj8-q963

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 417399

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: 3.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-14966

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.7

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/26/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/22/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-14966

cwe: CWE-347