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SCA: security update for slixmpp (GHSA-4g62-mfwx-4q48)

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 434100

Description

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

 - slixmpp version before commit 7cd73b594e8122dddf847953fcfc85ab4d316416 contains an incorrect Access
 Control vulnerability in XEP-0223 plugin (Persistent Storage of Private Data via PubSub) options profile,
 used for the configuration of default access model that can result in all of the contacts of the victim
 can see private data having been published to a PEP node. This attack appears to be exploitable if the
 user of this library publishes any private data on PEP, the node isn't configured to be private. This
 vulnerability appears to have been fixed in commit 7cd73b594e8122dddf847953fcfc85ab4d316416 which is
 included in slixmpp 1.4.2. (CVE-2019-1000021)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-4g62-mfwx-4q48

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 434100

Version: Revision 1.3

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 8/19/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.18

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-1000021

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/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: 5/13/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/4/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-1000021

cwe: CWE-284