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SCA: security update for i18next-locize-backend (GHSA-mgcp-mfp8-3q45)

medium Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 440754

Description

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

 - i18next-locize-backend is a simple i18next backend for locize.com which can be used in Node.js, in the
 browser and for Deno. Prior to version 9.0.2, i18next-locize-backend interpolates lng, ns, projectId, and
 version directly into the configured loadPath / privatePath / addPath / updatePath / getLanguagesPath URL
 templates with no path-component validation and no encoding. When an application exposes any of these
 values to user-controlled input (?lng= / ?ns= query parameters via i18next-browser-languagedetector,
 cookies, request headers, or a URL-derived projectId), a crafted value can change the structure of the
 outgoing request URL. Affected call sites in lib/index.js (pre-patch): the interpolate() helper is used at
 the five URL-build sites — _readAny/read (line 415 for private, 426 for public), getLanguages (lines 271
 and 296), and writePage (lines 616 and 622) for the missing-key and update POST paths. The helper
 interpolate in lib/utils.js substitutes raw values with no encoding. This issue has been patched in
 version 9.0.2. (CVE-2026-41885)

Solution

Update the i18next-locize-backend library and its related packages to version 9.0.2 or later.

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-mgcp-mfp8-3q45

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 440754

Version: Revision 1.7

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 4/23/2026

Updated: 7/2/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 2.1

Percentile: 7.67

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.4

Temporal Score: 4.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-41885

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/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: 4/22/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/22/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-41885