SCA: security update for github.com/antchfx/xmlquery (GHSA-93m7-c69f-5cfj)

critical Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 412997

Description

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

- xmlquery before 1.3.1 lacks a check for whether a LoadURL response is in the XML format, which allows
attackers to cause a denial of service (SIGSEGV) at xmlquery.(*Node).InnerText or possibly have
unspecified other impact. (CVE-2020-25614)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-93m7-c69f-5cfj

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 412997

Version: Revision 1.5

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: Medium

Score: 4.9

Percentile: 57.12

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-25614

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/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: 10/7/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/16/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-25614