Detections
Analytics
SCA: security update for com.diffplug.spotless:spotless-maven-plugin, com.diffplug.spotless:spotless-plugin-gradle (GHSA-7v35-qwwj-p98g)
high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 423455
Description
There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:- In DiffPlug Spotless before 1.20.0 (library and Maven plugin) and before 3.20.0 (Gradle plugin), the XML
parser would resolve external entities over both HTTP and HTTPS and didn't respect the
resolveExternalEntities setting. For example, this allows disclosure of file contents to a MITM attacker
if a victim performs a spotlessApply operation on an untrusted XML file. (CVE-2019-9843)
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Plugin Details
Severity: High
ID: 423455
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: 5.1
Temporal Score: 3.8
Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-9843
CVSS v3
Risk Factor: High
Base Score: 7.5
Temporal Score: 6.5
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/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: 7/5/2019
Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/15/2019
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2019-9843
cwe: CWE-611