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SCA: security update for microsoft.identitymodel.clients.activedirectory (GHSA-xc6x-cq47-9chw)

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 422908

Description

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

 - An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in Azure Active Directory Authentication Library On-Behalf-
 Of flow, in the way the library caches tokens. This vulnerability allows an authenticated attacker to
 perform actions in context of another user. The authenticated attacker can exploit this vulneraiblity by
 accessing a service configured for On-Behalf-Of flow that assigns incorrect tokens. This security update
 addresses the vulnerability by removing fallback cache look-up for On-Behalf-Of scenarios. (CVE-2019-1258)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-xc6x-cq47-9chw

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 422908

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: Medium

Score: 4.9

Percentile: 57.15

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 4.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-1258

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 7.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/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: 8/16/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/13/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-1258