SCA: security update for json (GHSA-x2f5-4prf-w687)

low Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 445223

Description

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

- Ruby JSON is a JSON implementation for Ruby. Versions 2.9.0 through 2.19.8 are vulnerable to heap buffer
overflow when the JSON generator is provided with an oversized streamed object. When streaming to an IO
JSON.dump(obj, io) and JSON::State#generate(obj, io) can write past the internal JSON generator buffer
when a streamed object contains an attacker-controlled string near 16 KB. Exploitation would result in a
reliable process crash/denial of service. This issue has been fixed in version 2.19.9. (CVE-2026-54696)

Solution

Update the json library and its related packages to version 2.19.9 or later.

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-x2f5-4prf-w687

Plugin Details

Severity: Low

ID: 445223

Version: Revision 1.1

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 7/24/2026

Updated: 7/24/2026

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 1.2

Percentile: 0.01

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Low

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2.6

Temporal Score: 1.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-54696

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 3.7

Temporal Score: 3.2

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

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/23/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/30/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-54696