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SCA: security update for loofah (GHSA-g4xq-jx4w-4cjv)

medium Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 422490

Description

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

 - In the Loofah gem for Ruby, through v2.2.2, unsanitized JavaScript may occur in sanitized output when a
 crafted SVG element is republished. (CVE-2018-16468)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-g4xq-jx4w-4cjv

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 422490

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: Low

Base Score: 3.5

Temporal Score: 2.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-16468

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.4

Temporal Score: 4.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/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: 11/1/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/30/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-16468

cwe: CWE-79