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SCA: security update for html-janitor (GHSA-hfj4-96f7-6r5g)

medium Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 423503

Description

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

 - html-janitor node module suffers from a Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability via clean() accepting
 user-controlled values. (CVE-2017-0931)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-hfj4-96f7-6r5g

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 423503

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: Low

Score: 2.3

Percentile: 8.69

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-2017-0931

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: 11/9/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/24/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-0931

cwe: CWE-79