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SCA: security update for com.fasterxml.jackson.core:jackson-databind (GHSA-3x8x-79m2-3w2w)

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 409763

Description

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

 - jackson-databind 2.10.x through 2.12.x before 2.12.6 and 2.13.x before 2.13.1 allows attackers to cause a
 denial of service (2 GB transient heap usage per read) in uncommon situations involving JsonNode JDK
 serialization. (CVE-2021-46877)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-3x8x-79m2-3w2w

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 409763

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: 3

Percentile: 23.73

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.1

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-46877

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/19/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/18/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-46877

cwe: CWE-770