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SCA: security update for sanitize (GHSA-p4x4-rw2p-8j8m)

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 417285

Description

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

 - In Sanitize (RubyGem sanitize) greater than or equal to 3.0.0 and less than 5.2.1, there is a cross-site
 scripting vulnerability. When HTML is sanitized using Sanitize's "relaxed" config, or a custom config that
 allows certain elements, some content in a math or svg element may not be sanitized correctly even if math
 and svg are not in the allowlist. You are likely to be vulnerable to this issue if you use Sanitize's
 relaxed config or a custom config that allows one or more of the following HTML elements: iframe, math,
 noembed, noframes, noscript, plaintext, script, style, svg, xmp. Using carefully crafted input, an
 attacker may be able to sneak arbitrary HTML through Sanitize, potentially resulting in XSS (cross-site
 scripting) or other undesired behavior when that HTML is rendered in a browser. This has been fixed in
 5.2.1. (CVE-2020-4054)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-p4x4-rw2p-8j8m

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 417285

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: Low

Score: 2.8

Percentile: 22.22

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-4054

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.3

Temporal Score: 6.4

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

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/16/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/16/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-4054

cwe: CWE-79