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SCA: security update for nokogiri (GHSA-q7wx-62r7-j2x7)

medium Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 423305

Description

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

 - The xmlreader in libxml allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via
 crafted XML data, related to an XML Entity Expansion (XEE) attack. (CVE-2015-1819)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-q7wx-62r7-j2x7

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 423305

Version: Revision 1.6

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: 1.2

Percentile: 0.01

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

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-2015-1819

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Temporal Score: 4.6

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

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/8/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/7/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-1819

BID: 75570

cwe: CWE-776