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SCA: security update for yajl-ruby (GHSA-wwh7-4jw9-33x6)

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 422763

Description

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

 - In the yajl-ruby gem 1.3.0 for Ruby, when a crafted JSON file is supplied to Yajl::Parser.new.parse, the
 whole ruby process crashes with a SIGABRT in the yajl_string_decode function in yajl_encode.c. This
 results in the whole ruby process terminating and potentially a denial of service. (CVE-2017-16516)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-wwh7-4jw9-33x6

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 422763

Version: Revision 1.5

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 3/29/2025

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-2017-16516

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: 11/28/2017

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/3/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-16516

cwe: CWE-134