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SCA: security update for io.springfox:springfox-swagger-ui, org.webjars.npm:swagger-ui, org.webjars:swagger-ui, swagger-ui (GHSA-c427-hjc3-wrfw)

critical Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 422979

Description

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

 - A Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) injection vulnerability in Swagger UI before 3.23.11 allows attackers to
 use the Relative Path Overwrite (RPO) technique to perform CSS-based input field value exfiltration, such
 as exfiltration of a CSRF token value. In other words, this product intentionally allows the embedding of
 untrusted JSON data from remote servers, but it was not previously known that <style>@import within the
 JSON data was a functional attack method. (CVE-2019-17495)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-c427-hjc3-wrfw

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 422979

Version: Revision 1.3

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 3/29/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.9

Percentile: 57.58

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Critical

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-17495

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.3

Threat Score: 8.9

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:P

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/15/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/10/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-17495