SCA: security update for org.dspace:dspace-xmlui (GHSA-4m9r-5gqp-7j82)

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 422632

Description

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

- The XMLUI feature in DSpace before 3.6, 4.x before 4.5, and 5.x before 5.5 allows directory traversal via
the themes/ path in an attack with two or more arbitrary characters and a colon before a pathname, as
demonstrated by a themes/Reference/aa:etc/passwd URI. (CVE-2016-10726)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-4m9r-5gqp-7j82

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 422632

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:P/I:N/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2016-10726

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:H/I:N/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: 7/10/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-10726

cwe: CWE-22