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SCA: security update for ca.uhn.hapi.fhir:org.hl7.fhir.dstu2016may, ca.uhn.hapi.fhir:org.hl7.fhir.dstu3, ca.uhn.hapi.fhir:org.hl7.fhir.r4, ca.uhn.hapi.fhir:org.hl7.fhir.r4b, ca.uhn.hapi.fhir:org.hl7.fhir.r5, ca.uhn.hapi.fhir:org.hl7.fhir.utilities (GHSA-gr3c-q7xf-47vh)

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 415270

Description

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

 - HAPI FHIR is a complete implementation of the HL7 FHIR standard for healthcare interoperability in Java.
 XSLT parsing performed by various components are vulnerable to XML external entity injections. A processed
 XML file with a malicious DTD tag ( <!DOCTYPE foo [<!ENTITY example SYSTEM "/etc/passwd"> ]> could produce
 XML containing data from the host system. This impacts use cases where org.hl7.fhir.core is being used to
 within a host where external clients can submit XML. This is related to GHSA-6cr6-ph3p-f5rf, in which its
 fix (#1571 & #1717) was incomplete. This issue has been addressed in release version 6.4.0 and all users
 are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability. (CVE-2024-52007)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-gr3c-q7xf-47vh

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 415270

Version: Revision 1.23

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: 3.3

Percentile: 51.26

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 5.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-52007

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.6

Temporal Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.7

Threat Score: 4.4

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:H/SI:N/SA:N

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/8/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/8/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-52007

cwe: CWE-611