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SCA: security update for io.vertx:vertx-core (GHSA-6cw8-7j6c-hccp)

medium Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 422331

Description

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

 - In Eclipse Vert.x version 3.0 to 3.5.1, the HttpServer response headers and HttpClient request headers do
 not filter carriage return and line feed characters from the header value. This allow unfiltered values to
 inject a new header in the client request or server response. (CVE-2018-12537)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-6cw8-7j6c-hccp

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 422331

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: 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-2018-12537

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: 10/19/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/14/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-12537

cwe: CWE-93