SCA: security update for uptime-kuma (GHSA-hx7h-9vf7-5xhg)

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 423587

Description

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

- Uptime Kuma >== 1.23.0 has a ReDoS vulnerability, specifically when an administrator creates a
notification through the web service. If a string is provided it triggers catastrophic backtracking in the
regular expression, leading to a ReDoS attack. (CVE-2025-26042)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-hx7h-9vf7-5xhg

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 423587

Version: Revision 1.9

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 3/31/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.5

Percentile: 57.08

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-26042

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6

Temporal Score: 5.2

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

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.7

Threat Score: 4

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:L/SI:L/SA:L

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/31/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/17/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-26042