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SCA: security update for com.typesafe.play:play (GHSA-v9mf-jgq3-c28h)

low Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 419233

Description

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

 - An issue was discovered in Play Framework 2.8.0 through 2.8.4. Carefully crafted JSON payloads sent as a
 form field lead to Data Amplification. This affects users migrating from a Play version prior to 2.8.0
 that used the Play Java API to serialize classes with protected or private fields to JSON.
 (CVE-2020-28923)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-v9mf-jgq3-c28h

Plugin Details

Severity: Low

ID: 419233

Version: Revision 1.4

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: 1.2

Percentile: 0.01

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Low

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4

Temporal Score: 3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-28923

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2.7

Temporal Score: 2.4

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/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: 2/9/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/3/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-28923

cwe: CWE-20