SCA: security update for ca.uhn.hapi.fhir:hapi-fhir-base (GHSA-52mh-p2m2-w625)

medium Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 422663

Description

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

- XSS exists in the HAPI FHIR testpage overlay module of the HAPI FHIR library before 3.8.0. The attack
involves unsanitized HTTP parameters being output in a form page, allowing attackers to leak cookies and
other sensitive information from ca/uhn/fhir/to/BaseController.java via a specially crafted URL. (This
module is not generally used in production systems so the attack surface is expected to be low, but
affected systems are recommended to upgrade immediately.) (CVE-2019-12741)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-52mh-p2m2-w625

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 422663

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: 2.3

Percentile: 8.67

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.2

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-12741

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.1

Temporal Score: 5.3

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:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/7/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/5/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-12741

cwe: CWE-79