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SCA: security update for com.twelvemonkeys.imageio:imageio-metadata (GHSA-pjch-4g28-fxx7)

critical Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 417566

Description

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

 - The package com.twelvemonkeys.imageio:imageio-metadata before 3.7.1 are vulnerable to XML External Entity
 (XXE) Injection due to an insecurely initialized XML parser for reading XMP Metadata. An attacker can
 exploit this vulnerability if they are able to supply a file (e.g. when an online profile picture is
 processed) with a malicious XMP segment. If the XMP metadata of the uploaded image is parsed, then the XXE
 vulnerability is triggered. (CVE-2021-23792)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-pjch-4g28-fxx7

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 417566

Version: Revision 1.9

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: 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-2021-23792

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: 5/7/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/6/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-23792

cwe: CWE-611