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SCA: security update for jwe (GHSA-c7p4-hx26-pr73)

critical Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 432559

Description

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

 - jwe is a Ruby implementation of the RFC 7516 JSON Web Encryption (JWE) standard. In versions 1.1.0 and
 below, authentication tags of encrypted JWEs can be brute forced, which may result in loss of
 confidentiality for those JWEs and provide ways to craft arbitrary JWEs. This puts users at risk because
 JWEs can be modified to decrypt to an arbitrary value, decrypted by observing parsing differences and the
 GCM internal GHASH key can be recovered. Users are affected by this vulnerability even if they do not use
 an AES-GCM encryption algorithm for their JWEs. As the GHASH key may have been leaked, users must rotate
 the encryption keys after upgrading. This issue is fixed in version 1.1.1. (CVE-2025-54887)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-c7p4-hx26-pr73

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 432559

Version: Revision 1.9

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 8/8/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.3

Percentile: 53.2

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Critical

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9.4

Temporal Score: 7.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-54887

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.1

Temporal Score: 8.2

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/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: 8/7/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/7/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-54887

cwe: CWE-354