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SCA: security update for io.vertx:vertx-web (GHSA-rvgg-f8qm-6h7j)

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 423478

Description

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

 - In version from 3.0.0 to 3.5.2 of Eclipse Vert.x, the CSRFHandler do not assert that the XSRF Cookie
 matches the returned XSRF header/form parameter. This allows replay attacks with previously issued tokens
 which are not expired yet. (CVE-2018-12540)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-rvgg-f8qm-6h7j

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 423478

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: Medium

Score: 4.9

Percentile: 57.15

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-12540

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 7.9

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

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/17/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/12/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-12540

cwe: CWE-352