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SCA: security update for com.cronutils:cron-utils (GHSA-p9m8-27x8-rg87)

critical Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 417425

Description

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

 - cron-utils is a Java library to define, parse, validate, migrate crons as well as get human readable
 descriptions for them. In affected versions A template Injection was identified in cron-utils enabling
 attackers to inject arbitrary Java EL expressions, leading to unauthenticated Remote Code Execution (RCE)
 vulnerability. Versions up to 9.1.2 are susceptible to this vulnerability. Please note, that only projects
 using the @Cron annotation to validate untrusted Cron expressions are affected. The issue was patched and
 a new version was released. Please upgrade to version 9.1.6. There are no known workarounds known.
 (CVE-2021-41269)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-p9m8-27x8-rg87

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 417425

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: Medium

Score: 4.9

Percentile: 57.12

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Critical

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-41269

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.8

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:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/15/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/15/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-41269

cwe: CWE-94