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SCA: security update for asciidoctor-include-ext (GHSA-v222-6mr4-qj29)

critical Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 419004

Description

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

 - Asciidoctor-include-ext is Asciidoctor’s standard include processor reimplemented as an extension.
 Versions prior to 0.4.0, when used to render user-supplied input in AsciiDoc markup, may allow an attacker
 to execute arbitrary system commands on the host operating system. This attack is possible even when
 `allow-uri-read` is disabled! The problem has been patched in the referenced commits. (CVE-2022-24803)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-v222-6mr4-qj29

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 419004

Version: Revision 1.6

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: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-24803

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: 3/31/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/31/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-24803

cwe: CWE-78