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SCA: security update for st (GHSA-72fg-jqhx-c68p)

medium Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 421941

Description

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

 - st is a module for serving static files. An attacker is able to craft a request that results in an HTTP
 301 (redirect) to an entirely different domain. A request for:
 http://some.server.com//nodesecurity.org/%2e%2e would result in a 301 to //nodesecurity.org/%2e%2e which
 most browsers treat as a proper redirect as // is translated into the current schema being used.
 Mitigating factor: In order for this to work, st must be serving from the root of a server (/) rather than
 the typical sub directory (/static/) and the redirect URL will end with some form of URL encoded ..
 ("%2e%2e", "%2e.", ".%2e"). (CVE-2017-16224)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-72fg-jqhx-c68p

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 421941

Version: Revision 1.3

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 3/28/2025

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: 5.8

Temporal Score: 4.5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-16224

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: 8/6/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/7/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-16224

cwe: CWE-601