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SCA: security update for nokogiri (GHSA-882p-jqgm-f45g)

medium Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 423417

Description

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

 - The xz_head function in xzlib.c in libxml2 before 2.9.6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of
 service (memory consumption) via a crafted LZMA file, because the decoder functionality does not restrict
 memory usage to what is required for a legitimate file. (CVE-2017-18258)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-882p-jqgm-f45g

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 423417

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: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.2

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-18258

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/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: 4/13/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/8/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-18258

cwe: CWE-770