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SCA: security update for unicode-json (GHSA-hw4r-xr38-hm8j)

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 423416

Description

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

 - unicode-json is a unicode lookup table. unicode-json before 2.0.0 downloads data resources over HTTP,
 which leaves it vulnerable to MITM attacks. (CVE-2016-10610)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-hw4r-xr38-hm8j

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 423416

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: 57.12

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

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-2016-10610

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.1

Temporal Score: 7.1

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/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: 2/18/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/1/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-10610

cwe: CWE-311