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SCA: security update for Auth0.AuthenticationApi (GHSA-c9cg-q8r2-xvjq)

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 422396

Description

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

 - Auth0 auth0.net before 6.5.4 has Incorrect Access Control because IdentityTokenValidator can be
 accidentally used to validate untrusted ID tokens. (CVE-2019-16929)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-c9cg-q8r2-xvjq

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 422396

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: High

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-2019-16929

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/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: 10/24/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/8/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-16929

cwe: CWE-287