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SCA: security update for highcharts (GHSA-8j65-4pcq-xq95)

medium Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 412722

Description

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

 - Highcharts JS is a JavaScript charting library based on SVG. In Highcharts versions 8 and earlier, the
 chart options structure was not systematically filtered for XSS vectors. The potential impact was that
 content from untrusted sources could execute code in the end user's browser. The vulnerability is patched
 in version 9. As a workaround, implementers who are not able to upgrade may apply DOMPurify recursively to
 the options structure to filter out malicious markup. (CVE-2021-29489)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-8j65-4pcq-xq95

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 412722

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: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 3.5

Temporal Score: 2.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-29489

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.4

Temporal Score: 4.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/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: 5/6/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/5/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-29489

cwe: CWE-79