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SCA: security update for docsify (GHSA-2mm9-c2fx-c7m4)

medium Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 408992

Description

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

 - This affects the package docsify before 4.12.0. It is possible to bypass the remediation done by
 CVE-2020-7680 and execute malicious JavaScript through the following methods 1) When parsing HTML from
 remote URLs, the HTML code on the main page is sanitized, but this sanitization is not taking place in the
 sidebar. 2) The isURL external check can be bypassed by inserting more “////” characters (CVE-2021-23342)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-2mm9-c2fx-c7m4

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 408992

Version: Revision 1.5

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 1/23/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 2.3

Percentile: 8.67

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:P/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-23342

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/1/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/19/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-23342

cwe: CWE-79