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SCA: security update for org.yaml:snakeyaml (GHSA-rvwf-54qp-4r6v)

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 418949

Description

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

 - The Alias feature in SnakeYAML before 1.26 allows entity expansion during a load operation, a related
 issue to CVE-2003-1564. (CVE-2017-18640)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-rvwf-54qp-4r6v

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 418949

Version: Revision 1.2

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: 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:N/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-18640

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:N/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: 6/4/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/12/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-18640

cwe: CWE-776