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SCA: security update for marked (GHSA-vfvf-mqq8-rwqc)

medium Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 423253

Description

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

 - marked is an application that is meant to parse and compile markdown. Due to the way that marked 0.3.5 and
 earlier parses input, specifically HTML entities, it's possible to bypass marked's content injection
 protection (`sanitize: true`) to inject a `javascript:` URL. This flaw exists because `&#xNNanything;`
 gets parsed to what it could and leaves the rest behind, resulting in just `anything;` being left.
 (CVE-2016-10531)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-vfvf-mqq8-rwqc

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 423253

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: 2.3

Percentile: 8.67

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2016-10531

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.1

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/18/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/18/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-10531

cwe: CWE-79