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SCA: security update for jsonata (GHSA-86vw-mfpg-wwv9)

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 445611

Description

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

 - JSONata is a JSON query and transformation language. Prior to 2.2.0 and 1.8.9, malicious non-matching
 inputs to the $toMillis function can cause superlinear backtracking in the ISO-8601 validation regex,
 leading to denial of service in applications that evaluate user-provided JSONata expressions. This issue
 is fixed in version 2.2.0 and 1.8.9. (CVE-2026-52746)

Solution

Update the jsonata library and its related packages to version 1.8.9 or later.

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-86vw-mfpg-wwv9

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 445611

Version: Revision 1.1

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 8/4/2026

Updated: 8/4/2026

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.71

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 5.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-52746

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/2/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/2/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-52746