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SCA: security update for graphql-playground-html (GHSA-4852-vrh7-28rf)

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 410040

Description

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

 - GraphQL Playground (graphql-playground-html NPM package) before version 1.6.22 have a severe XSS
 Reflection attack vulnerability. All unsanitized user input passed into renderPlaygroundPage() method
 could trigger this vulnerability. This has been patched in graphql-playground-html version 1.6.22. Note
 that some of the associated dependent middleware packages are also affected including but not limited to
 graphql-playground-middleware-express before version 1.7.16, graphql-playground-middleware-koa before
 version 1.6.15, graphql-playground-middleware-lambda before version 1.7.17, and graphql-playground-
 middleware-hapi before 1.6.13. (CVE-2020-4038)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-4852-vrh7-28rf

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 410040

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: 3.3

Percentile: 50.87

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.2

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-4038

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.4

Temporal Score: 6.4

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:H/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: 6/9/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/8/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-4038

cwe: CWE-79