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SCA: security update for github.com/kitabisa/teler-waf (GHSA-9f95-hhg4-pg4f)

medium Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 413240

Description

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

 - teler-waf is a Go HTTP middleware that provides teler IDS functionality to protect against web-based
 attacks. In teler-waf prior to version 0.1.1 is vulnerable to bypassing common web attack rules when a
 specific HTML entities payload is used. This vulnerability allows an attacker to execute arbitrary
 JavaScript code on the victim's browser and compromise the security of the web application. The
 vulnerability exists due to teler-waf failure to properly sanitize and filter HTML entities in user input.
 An attacker can exploit this vulnerability to bypass common web attack threat rules in teler-waf and
 launch cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks. The attacker can execute arbitrary JavaScript code on the
 victim's browser and steal sensitive information, such as login credentials and session tokens, or take
 control of the victim's browser and perform malicious actions. This issue has been fixed in version 0.1.1.
 (CVE-2023-26046)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-9f95-hhg4-pg4f

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 413240

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: 2.3

Percentile: 9.14

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.4

Temporal Score: 4.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-26046

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.1

Temporal Score: 5.3

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:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/1/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/1/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-26046