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SCA: security update for k8s.io/kubernetes (GHSA-f9jg-8p32-2f55)

low Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 431988

Description

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

 - kubectl does not neutralize escape, meta or control sequences contained in the raw data it outputs to a
 terminal. This includes but is not limited to the unstructured string fields in objects such as Events.
 (CVE-2021-25743)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-f9jg-8p32-2f55

Plugin Details

Severity: Low

ID: 431988

Version: Revision 1.6

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: 1.2

Percentile: 0.01

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Low

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2.1

Temporal Score: 1.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-25743

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 3

Temporal Score: 2.6

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/8/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/2/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-25743

cwe: CWE-150