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SCA: security update for nokogiri (GHSA-7hp2-xwpj-95jq)

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 422777

Description

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

 - dict.c in libxml2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer over-read and
 application crash) via an unexpected character immediately after the "<!DOCTYPE html" substring in a
 crafted HTML document. (CVE-2015-8806)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-7hp2-xwpj-95jq

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 422777

Version: Revision 1.3

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 3/29/2025

Updated: 8/8/2025

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: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2015-8806

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

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:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/17/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/25/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-8806

BID: 82071

cwe: CWE-125