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SCA: security update for io.vertx:vertx-core (GHSA-45xm-v8gq-7jqx)

medium Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 422319

Description

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

 - In version from 3.0.0 to 3.5.3 of Eclipse Vert.x, the WebSocket HTTP upgrade implementation buffers the
 full http request before doing the handshake, holding the entire request body in memory. There should be a
 reasonnable limit (8192 bytes) above which the WebSocket gets an HTTP response with the 413 status code
 and the connection gets closed. (CVE-2018-12541)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-45xm-v8gq-7jqx

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 422319

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: 3

Percentile: 23.18

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4

Temporal Score: 3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-12541

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/17/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/10/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-12541