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SCA: security update for xerces:xercesImpl (GHSA-w4jq-qh47-hvjq)
medium Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 419691
Description
There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:- A flaw was found in Wildfly's implementation of Xerces, specifically in the way the XMLSchemaValidator
class in the JAXP component of Wildfly enforced the "use-grammar-pool-only" feature. This flaw allows a
specially-crafted XML file to manipulate the validation process in certain cases. This issue is the same
flaw as CVE-2020-14621, which affected OpenJDK, and uses a similar code. This flaw affects all Xerces
JBoss versions before 2.12.0.SP3. (CVE-2020-14338)
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Plugin Details
Severity: Medium
ID: 419691
Version: Revision 1.4
Type: Local
Family: SCA Checks
Published: 1/23/2025
Updated: 7/6/2026
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: Medium
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: Medium
Base Score: 5
Temporal Score: 3.7
Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-14338
CVSS v3
Risk Factor: Medium
Base Score: 5.3
Temporal Score: 4.6
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/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: 2/15/2022
Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/17/2020
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2020-14338
cwe: CWE-20