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SCA: security update for erusev/parsedown (GHSA-qgpv-86r3-87fh)

medium Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 418128

Description

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

 - Parsedown version prior to 1.7.0 contains a Cross Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in `setMarkupEscaped`
 for escaping HTML that can result in JavaScript code execution. This attack appears to be exploitable via
 specially crafted markdown that allows it to side step HTML escaping by breaking AST boundaries. This
 vulnerability appears to have been fixed in 1.7.0 and later. (CVE-2018-1000162)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-qgpv-86r3-87fh

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 418128

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: 8.67

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.2

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-1000162

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.1

Temporal Score: 5.3

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:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/30/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/18/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-1000162

cwe: CWE-79