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SCA: security update for nbconvert (GHSA-9jmq-rx5f-8jwq)

medium Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 413341

Description

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

 - The GitHub Security Lab discovered sixteen ways to exploit a cross-site scripting vulnerability in
 nbconvert. When using nbconvert to generate an HTML version of a user-controllable notebook, it is
 possible to inject arbitrary HTML which may lead to cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities if these
 HTML notebooks are served by a web server (eg: nbviewer). (CVE-2021-32862)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-9jmq-rx5f-8jwq

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 413341

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: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 4.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-32862

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.4

Temporal Score: 4.9

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:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/10/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/10/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-32862

cwe: CWE-79