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SCA: security update for nokogiri (GHSA-6qvp-r6r3-9p7h)

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 422877

Description

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

 - A NULL pointer dereference vulnerability exists in the xpath.c:xmlXPathCompOpEval() function of libxml2
 through 2.9.8 when parsing an invalid XPath expression in the XPATH_OP_AND or XPATH_OP_OR case.
 Applications processing untrusted XSL format inputs with the use of the libxml2 library may be vulnerable
 to a denial of service attack due to a crash of the application. (CVE-2018-14404)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-6qvp-r6r3-9p7h

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 422877

Version: Revision 1.7

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: 3.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-14404

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

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:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/17/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/19/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-14404

cwe: CWE-476