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SCA: security update for mathjax (GHSA-3c48-6pcv-88rm)

medium Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 422790

Description

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

 - MathJax version prior to version 2.7.4 contains a Cross Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the
 \unicode{} macro that can result in Potentially untrusted Javascript running within a web browser. This
 attack appear to be exploitable via The victim must view a page where untrusted content is processed using
 Mathjax. This vulnerability appears to have been fixed in 2.7.4 and later. (CVE-2018-1999024)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-3c48-6pcv-88rm

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 422790

Version: Revision 1.3

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: 2.1

Percentile: 6.91

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-2018-1999024

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.4

Temporal Score: 4.9

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/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: 7/27/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/23/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-1999024

cwe: CWE-79