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SCA: security update for redcarpet (GHSA-7322-9mx6-5j2m)

critical Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 422801

Description

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

 - Stack-based buffer overflow in the header_anchor function in the HTML renderer in Redcarpet before 3.3.2
 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via unspecified
 vectors. (CVE-2015-5147)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-7322-9mx6-5j2m

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 422801

Version: Revision 1.4

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: Medium

Score: 4.9

Percentile: 57.15

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2015-5147

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/15/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/29/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-5147

BID: 75508

cwe: CWE-119