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SCA: security update for nokogiri (GHSA-v4f8-2847-rwm7)

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 431914

Description

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

 - There's a flaw in libxml2 in versions before 2.9.11. An attacker who is able to submit a crafted file to
 be processed by an application linked with libxml2 could trigger a use-after-free. The greatest impact
 from this flaw is to confidentiality, integrity, and availability. (CVE-2021-3518)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-v4f8-2847-rwm7

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 431914

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: Medium

Score: 4.9

Percentile: 57.82

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-3518

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 7.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/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: 5/24/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/18/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-3518

cwe: CWE-416