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SCA: security update for @novnc/novnc (GHSA-49rv-g7w5-m8xx)

medium Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 410082

Description

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

 - An XSS vulnerability was discovered in noVNC before 0.6.2 in which the remote VNC server could inject
 arbitrary HTML into the noVNC web page via the messages propagated to the status field, such as the VNC
 server name. (CVE-2017-18635)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-49rv-g7w5-m8xx

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 410082

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: 2.3

Percentile: 8.67

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-18635

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.1

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/28/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/25/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-18635

cwe: CWE-79