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SCA: security update for urlregex (GHSA-rw72-v6c7-hf9r)

medium Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 418956

Description

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

 - A vulnerability was found in nescalante urlregex up to 0.5.0 and classified as problematic. This issue
 affects some unknown processing of the file index.js of the component Backtracking. The manipulation leads
 to inefficient regular expression complexity. The attack may be initiated remotely. The exploit has been
 disclosed to the public and may be used. Upgrading to version 0.5.1 is able to address this issue. The
 identifier of the patch is e5a085afe6abfaea1d1a78f54c45af9ef43ca1f9. It is recommended to upgrade the
 affected component. (CVE-2020-36830)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-rw72-v6c7-hf9r

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 418956

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: 3

Percentile: 23.51

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.1

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-36830

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.7

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

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Threat Score: 2.1

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:P

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/2/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/2/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-36830