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SCA: security update for angular-expressions (GHSA-hxhm-96pp-2m43)

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 422567

Description

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

 - Angular Expressions before version 1.0.1 has a remote code execution vulnerability if you call
 expressions.compile(userControlledInput) where userControlledInput is text that comes from user input. If
 running angular-expressions in the browser, an attacker could run any browser script when the application
 code calls expressions.compile(userControlledInput). If running angular-expressions on the server, an
 attacker could run any Javascript expression, thus gaining Remote Code Execution. (CVE-2020-5219)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-hxhm-96pp-2m43

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 422567

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: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-5219

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 7.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/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: 1/24/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/24/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-5219

cwe: CWE-74