SCA: security update for io.spray:spray-json_2.10, io.spray:spray-json_2.11, io.spray:spray-json_2.12 (GHSA-f94m-mqhr-mc29)

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 422636

Description

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

- Lightbend Spray spray-json through 1.3.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource
consumption) because of Algorithmic Complexity during the parsing of a field composed of many decimal
digits. (CVE-2018-18853)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-f94m-mqhr-mc29

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 422636

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: 3.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-18853

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.7

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/9/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/31/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-18853

cwe: CWE-400