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SCA: security update for i18next (GHSA-f89g-whpf-6q9m)

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 422638

Description

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

 - i18next is a language translation framework. Because of how the interpolation is implemented, making
 replacements from the dictionary one at a time, untrusted user input can use the name of one of the
 dictionary keys to inject script into the browser. This affects i18next <=1.10.2. (CVE-2017-16008)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-f89g-whpf-6q9m

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 422638

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: 2.3

Percentile: 8.67

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-16008

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.1

Temporal Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/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: 11/9/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/14/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-16008

cwe: CWE-79