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SCA: security update for jose (GHSA-58f5-hfqc-jgch)

medium Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 410689

Description

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

 - jose is an npm library providing a number of cryptographic operations. In vulnerable versions
 AES_CBC_HMAC_SHA2 Algorithm (A128CBC-HS256, A192CBC-HS384, A256CBC-HS512) decryption would always execute
 both HMAC tag verification and CBC decryption, if either failed `JWEDecryptionFailed` would be thrown. A
 possibly observable difference in timing when padding error would occur while decrypting the ciphertext
 makes a padding oracle and an adversary might be able to make use of that oracle to decrypt data without
 knowing the decryption key by issuing on average 128*b calls to the padding oracle (where b is the number
 of bytes in the ciphertext block). All major release versions have had a patch released which ensures the
 HMAC tag is verified before performing CBC decryption. The fixed versions are `^1.28.1 || ^2.0.5 ||
 >=3.11.4`. Users should upgrade their v1.x dependency to ^1.28.1, their v2.x dependency to ^2.0.5, and
 their v3.x dependency to ^3.11.4. Thanks to Jason from Microsoft Vulnerability Research (MSVR) for
 bringing this up and Eva Sarafianou (@esarafianou) for helping to score this advisory. (CVE-2021-29443)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-58f5-hfqc-jgch

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 410689

Version: Revision 1.6

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: 23.18

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.2

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-29443

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.9

Temporal Score: 5.2

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/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: 4/19/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/16/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-29443