SCA: security update for joomla/database (GHSA-44v2-prcf-pc3m)

medium Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 424810

Description

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

- Improper handling of identifiers lead to a SQL injection vulnerability in the quoteNameStr method of the
database package. Please note: the affected method is a protected method. It has no usages in the original
packages in neither the 2.x nor 3.x branch and therefore the vulnerability in question can not be
exploited when using the original database class. However, classes extending the affected class might be
affected, if the vulnerable method is used. (CVE-2025-25226)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-44v2-prcf-pc3m

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 424810

Version: Revision 1.9

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 4/9/2025

Updated: 12/12/2025

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.9

Percentile: 57.47

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-25226

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.9

Threat Score: 2.7

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:L/SA:N

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/8/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/8/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-25226

cwe: CWE-89