SCA: security update for com.puppycrawl.tools:checkstyle (GHSA-763g-fqq7-48wg)

medium Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 423351

Description

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

- All versions of com.puppycrawl.tools:checkstyle before 8.29 are vulnerable to XML External Entity (XXE)
Injection due to an incomplete fix for CVE-2019-9658. (CVE-2019-10782)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-763g-fqq7-48wg

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 423351

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: 1.2

Percentile: 0.01

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:P/I:N/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-10782

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Temporal Score: 4.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/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: 1/31/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/30/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-10782

cwe: CWE-611