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SCA: security update for whoogle-search (GHSA-phg6-44m7-hx3h)

medium Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 417536

Description

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

 - Whoogle Search is a self-hosted metasearch engine. In versions 0.8.3 and prior, the `element` method in
 `app/routes.py` does not validate the user-controlled `src_type` and `element_url` variables and passes
 them to the `send` method which sends a `GET` request on lines 339-343 in `requests.py`. The returned
 contents of the URL are then passed to and reflected back to the user in the `send_file` function on line
 484, together with the user-controlled `src_type`, which allows the attacker to control the HTTP response
 content type leading to a cross-site scripting vulnerability. An attacker could craft a special URL to
 point to a malicious website and send the link to a victim. The fact that the link would contain a trusted
 domain (e.g. from one of public Whoogle instances) could be used to trick the user into clicking the link.
 The malicious website could, for example, be a copy of a real website, meant to steal a person’s
 credentials to the website, or trick that person in another way. Version 0.8.4 contains a patch for this
 issue. (CVE-2024-22417)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-phg6-44m7-hx3h

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 417536

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: 2.3

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-2024-22417

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: 3/14/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/23/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-22417

cwe: CWE-79