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SCA: security update for marked (GHSA-x5pg-88wf-qq4p)

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 422295

Description

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

 - The marked module is vulnerable to a regular expression denial of service. Based on the information
 published in the public issue, 1k characters can block for around 6 seconds. (CVE-2017-16114)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-x5pg-88wf-qq4p

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 422295

Version: Revision 1.4

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: 23.51

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-2017-16114

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: 7/24/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/21/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-16114

cwe: CWE-400