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SCA: security update for xalan:xalan (GHSA-9339-86wc-4qgf)

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 421789

Description

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

 - The Apache Xalan Java XSLT library is vulnerable to an integer truncation issue when processing malicious
 XSLT stylesheets. This can be used to corrupt Java class files generated by the internal XSLTC compiler
 and execute arbitrary Java bytecode. Users are recommended to update to version 2.7.3 or later. Note: Java
 runtimes (such as OpenJDK) include repackaged copies of Xalan. (CVE-2022-34169)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-9339-86wc-4qgf

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 421789

Version: Revision 1.3

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 3/28/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

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: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.1

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-34169

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:H/A:N

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/20/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/19/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-34169

cwe: CWE-681