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SCA: security update for handlebars (GHSA-xw65-4hp5-5hc7)

medium Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 473851

Description

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

 - Handlebars provides the power necessary to let users build semantic templates. From 4.0.0 until 4.7.10,
 Handlebars.precompile() uses quotedString() in lib/handlebars/compiler/code-gen.js to emit static template
 text into generated JavaScript without escaping sequences that terminate an enclosing HTML script element.
 When an application precompiles attacker-controlled template text and embeds the generated source directly
 in an inline script element, a closing script delimiter can end the element and cause following attacker-
 controlled markup to be parsed and executed. Ordinary server-side rendering and precompiled templates
 served as external JavaScript files are not affected. This issue is fixed in version 4.7.10.
 (CVE-2026-106444)

Solution

Update the handlebars library and its related packages to version 4.7.10 or later.

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-xw65-4hp5-5hc7

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 473851

Version: Revision 1.1

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 10/8/2026

Updated: 10/8/2026

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 2.3

Percentile: 10.07

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4

Temporal Score: 3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-106444

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.7

Temporal Score: 4.1

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/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: 10/8/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/6/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-106444

cwe: CWE-116