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SCA: security update for jsrsasign (GHSA-xxxq-chmp-67g4)

critical Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 420755

Description

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

 - An issue was discovered in the jsrsasign package before 8.0.18 for Node.js. Its RSA PKCS1 v1.5 decryption
 implementation does not detect ciphertext modification by prepending '\0' bytes to ciphertexts (it
 decrypts modified ciphertexts without error). An attacker might prepend these bytes with the goal of
 triggering memory corruption issues. (CVE-2020-14967)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-xxxq-chmp-67g4

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 420755

Version: Revision 1.4

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: 57.15

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Critical

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-14967

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: 6/26/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/22/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-14967

cwe: CWE-119