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SCA: security update for nokogiri (GHSA-jmhh-w7xp-wg39)

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 433618

Description

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

 - Nokogiri gem 1.5.x and 1.6.x has DoS while parsing XML entities by failing to apply limits (CVE-2013-6461)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-jmhh-w7xp-wg39

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 433618

Version: Revision 1.3

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 8/19/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.18

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2013-6461

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/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: 5/5/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/24/2013

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2013-6461

BID: 64513

cwe: CWE-776