SCA: security update for haml (GHSA-r53w-g4xm-3gc6)

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 422674

Description

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

- In haml versions prior to version 5.0.0.beta.2, when using user input to perform tasks on the server,
characters like < > " ' must be escaped properly. In this case, the ' character was missed. An attacker
can manipulate the input to introduce additional attributes, potentially executing code.
(CVE-2017-1002201)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-r53w-g4xm-3gc6

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 422674

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: 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-2017-1002201

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: 10/21/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/15/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-1002201

cwe: CWE-79