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SCA: security update for nokogiri (GHSA-xjqg-9jvg-fgx2)

critical Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 423441

Description

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

 - The xmlStringLenDecodeEntities function in parser.c in libxml2 before 2.9.3 does not properly prevent
 entity expansion, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption)
 via crafted XML data, a different vulnerability than CVE-2014-3660. (CVE-2015-5312)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-xjqg-9jvg-fgx2

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 423441

Version: Revision 1.5

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: Medium

Score: 4.9

Percentile: 57.78

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.1

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2015-5312

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/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: 8/21/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/20/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-5312

BID: 79536

cwe: CWE-400