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SCA: security update for com.mchange:c3p0 (GHSA-84p2-vf58-xhxv)

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 422880

Description

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

 - c3p0 version < 0.9.5.4 may be exploited by a billion laughs attack when loading XML configuration due to
 missing protections against recursive entity expansion when loading configuration. (CVE-2019-5427)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-84p2-vf58-xhxv

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 422880

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: 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-2019-5427

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: 4/23/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/22/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-5427

cwe: CWE-776