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SCA: security update for feedgen (GHSA-g8q7-xv52-hf9f)

medium Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 422949

Description

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

 - Feedgen (python feedgen) before 0.9.0 is susceptible to XML Denial of Service attacks. The *feedgen*
 library allows supplying XML as content for some of the available fields. This XML will be parsed and
 integrated into the existing XML tree. During this process, feedgen is vulnerable to XML Denial of Service
 Attacks (e.g. XML Bomb). This becomes a concern in particular if feedgen is used to include content from
 untrused sources and if XML (including XHTML) is directly included instead of providing plain tex content
 only. This problem has been fixed in feedgen 0.9.0 which disallows XML entity expansion and external
 resources. (CVE-2020-5227)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-g8q7-xv52-hf9f

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 422949

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: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.18

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

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-2020-5227

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.9

Threat Score: 5

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:P

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:H/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/28/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/28/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-5227

cwe: CWE-776