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SCA: security update for nokogiri (GHSA-2rr5-8q37-2w7h)

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 409087

Description

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

 - Nokogiri is a Rubygem providing HTML, XML, SAX, and Reader parsers with XPath and CSS selector support. In
 Nokogiri v1.12.4 and earlier, on JRuby only, the SAX parser resolves external entities by default. Users
 of Nokogiri on JRuby who parse untrusted documents using any of these classes are affected:
 Nokogiri::XML::SAX::Parse, Nokogiri::HTML4::SAX::Parser or its alias Nokogiri::HTML::SAX::Parser,
 Nokogiri::XML::SAX::PushParser, and Nokogiri::HTML4::SAX::PushParser or its alias
 Nokogiri::HTML::SAX::PushParser. JRuby users should upgrade to Nokogiri v1.12.5 or later to receive a
 patch for this issue. There are no workarounds available for v1.12.4 or earlier. CRuby users are not
 affected. (CVE-2021-41098)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-2rr5-8q37-2w7h

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 409087

Version: Revision 1.4

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: 3

Percentile: 23.18

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-41098

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/27/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/27/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-41098

cwe: CWE-611