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SCA: security update for github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei, github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/v2 (GHSA-2xx4-jj5v-6mff)

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 409187

Description

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

 - Nuclei is a vulnerability scanner. Prior to version 2.9.9, a security issue in the Nuclei project affected
 users utilizing Nuclei as Go code (SDK) running custom templates. This issue did not affect CLI users. The
 problem was related to sanitization issues with payload loading in sandbox mode. There was a potential
 risk with payloads loading in sandbox mode. The issue occurred due to relative paths not being converted
 to absolute paths before doing the check for `sandbox` flag allowing arbitrary files to be read on the
 filesystem in certain cases when using Nuclei from `Go` SDK implementation. This issue has been fixed in
 version 2.9.9. The maintainers have also enabled sandbox by default for filesystem loading. This can be
 optionally disabled if required. The `-sandbox` option has been deprecated and is now divided into two new
 options: `-lfa` (allow local file access) which is enabled by default and `-lna` (restrict local network
 access) which can be enabled by users optionally. The `-lfa` allows file (payload) access anywhere on the
 system (disabling sandbox effectively), and `-lna` blocks connections to the local/private network.
 (CVE-2023-37896)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-2xx4-jj5v-6mff

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 409187

Version: Revision 1.11

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: 23.51

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 5.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-37896

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: 8/4/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/4/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-37896

cwe: CWE-22