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SCA: security update for github.com/sourcegraph/sourcegraph (GHSA-mx43-r985-5h4m)

medium Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 431711

Description

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

 - Sourcegraph before 3.15.1 has a vulnerable authentication workflow because of improper validation in the
 SafeRedirectURL method in cmd/frontend/auth/redirect.go, such as for the //foo//example.com substring.
 (CVE-2020-12283)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-mx43-r985-5h4m

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 431711

Version: Revision 1.3

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 8/7/2025

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: 5.8

Temporal Score: 4.5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-12283

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: 12/20/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/30/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-12283

cwe: CWE-601