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SCA: security update for org.owasp.antisamy:antisamy (GHSA-pcf2-gh6g-h5r2)

medium Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 417455

Description

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

 - AntiSamy is a library for performing fast, configurable cleansing of HTML coming from untrusted sources.
 Prior to version 1.7.4, there is a potential for a mutation XSS (mXSS) vulnerability in AntiSamy caused by
 flawed parsing of the HTML being sanitized. To be subject to this vulnerability the `preserveComments`
 directive must be enabled in your policy file and also allow for certain tags at the same time. As a
 result, certain crafty inputs can result in elements in comment tags being interpreted as executable when
 using AntiSamy's sanitized output. This issue has been patched in AntiSamy 1.7.4 and later.
 (CVE-2023-43643)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-pcf2-gh6g-h5r2

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 417455

Version: Revision 1.7

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: 5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-43643

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.1

Temporal Score: 5.5

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:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/9/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/9/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-43643

cwe: CWE-79