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SCA: security update for joi (GHSA-q7cg-457f-vx79)

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 443075

Description

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

 - joi is a schema description language and data validator for JavaScript. Prior to 17.13.4 and 18.2.1,
 denial of service is possible via an untrapped exception in services validating user-supplied JSON or
 object input with recursive link() schemas. When validate() is called without try/catch in a request
 handler, deeply nested input can trigger an unhandled RangeError and potentially crash the process; lower-
 impact paths using validateAsync() or try/catch produce a RangeError instead of a structured
 ValidationError. This issue is fixed in versions 17.13.4 and 18.2.1. (CVE-2026-48038)

Solution

Update the joi library and its related packages to version 18.2.1 or later.

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-q7cg-457f-vx79

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 443075

Version: Revision 1.4

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 6/11/2026

Updated: 7/15/2026

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: 3.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-48038

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Temporal Score: 4.6

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:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/11/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/11/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-48038