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SCA: security update for genix/cms (GHSA-2m9r-pm7q-wr6f)

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 434818

Description

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

 - GeniXCMS before 1.1.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (account blockage) by
 leveraging the mishandling of certain username substring relationships, such as the admin<script> username
 versus the admin username, related to register.php, User.class.php, and Type.class.php. (CVE-2017-14231)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-2m9r-pm7q-wr6f

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 434818

Version: Revision 1.2

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 8/20/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 1.2

Percentile: 0.01

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-14231

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Temporal Score: 4.8

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

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/17/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/10/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-14231

cwe: CWE-20