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SCA: security update for marked (GHSA-5v2h-r2cx-5xgj)

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 411018

Description

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

 - Marked is a markdown parser and compiler. Prior to version 4.0.10, the regular expression
 `inline.reflinkSearch` may cause catastrophic backtracking against some strings and lead to a denial of
 service (DoS). Anyone who runs untrusted markdown through a vulnerable version of marked and does not use
 a worker with a time limit may be affected. This issue is patched in version 4.0.10. As a workaround,
 avoid running untrusted markdown through marked or run marked on a worker thread and set a reasonable time
 limit to prevent draining resources. (CVE-2022-21681)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-5v2h-r2cx-5xgj

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 411018

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: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-21681

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: 1/14/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/14/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-21681