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SCA: security update for redcarpet (GHSA-q3wr-qw3g-3p4h)

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 417853

Description

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

 - Redcarpet is a Ruby library for Markdown processing. In Redcarpet before version 3.5.1, there is an
 injection vulnerability which can enable a cross-site scripting attack. In affected versions no HTML
 escaping was being performed when processing quotes. This applies even when the `:escape_html` option was
 being used. This is fixed in version 3.5.1 by the referenced commit. (CVE-2020-26298)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-q3wr-qw3g-3p4h

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 417853

Version: Revision 1.5

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 1/23/2025

Updated: 1/28/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 2.3

Percentile: 8.67

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 3.5

Temporal Score: 2.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-26298

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.4

Temporal Score: 4.7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/11/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/11/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-26298