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SCA: security update for defuddle (GHSA-5mq8-78gm-pjmq)

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 438472

Description

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

 - Defuddle cleans up HTML pages. Prior to version 0.9.0, the _findContentBySchemaText method in
 src/defuddle.ts interpolates image src and alt attributes directly into an HTML string without escaping.
 An attacker can use a " in the alt attribute to break out of the attribute context and inject event
 handler. This issue has been patched in version 0.9.0. (CVE-2026-30830)

Solution

Update the defuddle library and its related packages to version 0.9.0 or later.

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-5mq8-78gm-pjmq

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 438472

Version: Revision 1.8

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 3/7/2026

Updated: 7/2/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 2.3

Percentile: 9.42

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Low

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.4

Temporal Score: 5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-30830

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.1

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Threat Score: 2.1

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:P

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/6/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/6/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-30830

cwe: CWE-79