SCA: security update for io.dropwizard:dropwizard-validation (GHSA-3mcp-9wr4-cjqf)

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 422235

Description

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

- Dropwizard-Validation before 1.3.19, and 2.0.2 may allow arbitrary code execution on the host system, with
the privileges of the Dropwizard service account, by injecting arbitrary Java Expression Language
expressions when using the self-validating feature. The issue has been fixed in dropwizard-validation
1.3.19 and 2.0.2. (CVE-2020-5245)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-3mcp-9wr4-cjqf

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 422235

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: Medium

Score: 4.9

Percentile: 57.12

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9

Temporal Score: 7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-5245

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 7.9

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

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/24/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/24/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-5245

cwe: CWE-74