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SCA: security update for org.owasp.antisamy:antisamy (GHSA-q44v-xc3g-v7jq)

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 423217

Description

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

 - OWASP AntiSamy before 1.5.7 allows XSS via HTML5 entities, as demonstrated by use of : to construct
 a javascript: URL. (CVE-2017-14735)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-q44v-xc3g-v7jq

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 423217

Version: Revision 1.4

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: Low

Score: 2.3

Percentile: 8.67

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.2

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-14735

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.1

Temporal Score: 5.3

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:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/18/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/25/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-14735

BID: 105656

cwe: CWE-79