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SCA: security update for shout (GHSA-26q7-g57v-mxcp)

medium Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 421994

Description

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

 - Shout is an IRC client. Because the `/topic` command in messages is unescaped, attackers have the ability
 to inject HTML scripts that will run in the victim's browser. Affects shout >=0.44.0 <=0.49.3.
 (CVE-2017-16043)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-26q7-g57v-mxcp

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 421994

Version: Revision 1.4

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: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.2

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-16043

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: 11/7/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/9/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-16043

cwe: CWE-80