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SCA: security update for CairoSVG (GHSA-hq37-853p-g5cf)

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 415883

Description

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

 - CairoSVG is a Python (pypi) package. CairoSVG is an SVG converter based on Cairo. In CairoSVG before
 version 2.5.1, there is a regular expression denial of service (REDoS) vulnerability. When processing SVG
 files, the python package CairoSVG uses two regular expressions which are vulnerable to Regular Expression
 Denial of Service (REDoS). If an attacker provides a malicious SVG, it can make cairosvg get stuck
 processing the file for a very long time. This is fixed in version 2.5.1. See Referenced GitHub advisory
 for more information. (CVE-2021-21236)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-hq37-853p-g5cf

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 415883

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: 3

Percentile: 23.18

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-21236

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 5

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

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.7

Threat Score: 7.7

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:P

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/6/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/6/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-21236

cwe: CWE-400