SCA: security update for com.fasterxml.jackson.core:jackson-databind (GHSA-gjmw-vf9h-g25v)

critical Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 423322

Description

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

- A Polymorphic Typing issue was discovered in FasterXML jackson-databind 2.0.0 through 2.9.10. When Default
Typing is enabled (either globally or for a specific property) for an externally exposed JSON endpoint and
the service has the apache-log4j-extra (version 1.2.x) jar in the classpath, and an attacker can provide a
JNDI service to access, it is possible to make the service execute a malicious payload. (CVE-2019-17531)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-gjmw-vf9h-g25v

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 423322

Version: Revision 1.8

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: 57.86

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Critical

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-17531

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

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:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/13/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/12/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-17531

cwe: CWE-502