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SCA: security update for vega (GHSA-r2qc-w64x-6j54)

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 418437

Description

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

 - Vega is a visualization grammar, a declarative format for creating, saving, and sharing interactive
 visualization designs. Vega in an npm package. In Vega before version 5.17.3 there is an XSS vulnerability
 in Vega expressions. Through a specially crafted Vega expression, an attacker could execute arbitrary
 javascript on a victim's machine. This is fixed in version 5.17.3 (CVE-2020-26296)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-r2qc-w64x-6j54

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 418437

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: 4.8

Percentile: 56.9

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Low

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-2020-26296

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.7

Temporal Score: 7.6

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/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: 12/30/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/30/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-26296

cwe: CWE-79