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SCA: security update for xerces:xercesImpl (GHSA-334p-wv2m-w3vp)

medium Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 409231

Description

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

 - XMLScanner.java in Apache Xerces2 Java, as used in Sun Java Runtime Environment (JRE) in JDK and JRE 6
 before Update 15 and JDK and JRE 5.0 before Update 20, and in other products, allows remote attackers to
 cause a denial of service (infinite loop and application hang) via malformed XML input, as demonstrated by
 the Codenomicon XML fuzzing framework. (CVE-2009-2625)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-334p-wv2m-w3vp

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 409231

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: 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-2009-2625

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: 6/15/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/3/2009

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2009-2625

BID: 35958