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SCA: security update for sanitize-html (GHSA-xc6g-ggrc-qq4r)

medium Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 422639

Description

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

 - Sanitize-html is a library for scrubbing html input of malicious values. Versions 1.11.1 and below are
 vulnerable to cross site scripting (XSS) in certain scenarios: If allowed at least one nonTextTags, the
 result is a potential XSS vulnerability. (CVE-2017-16016)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-xc6g-ggrc-qq4r

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 422639

Version: Revision 1.5

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: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-16016

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.1

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

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: 10/27/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-16016

cwe: CWE-79