Questions tagged [cve]
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How do I get details of a veracode vulnerability report?
How do I get details of a veracode vulnerability report?
I'm a maintainer of a popular JS library, Ramda, and we've recently received a report that the library is subject to a prototype pollution vulnerability. This has been tracked back to a…

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VSCode doesn't recognize python cells - CVE instead
I try to run a notebook with the .ipynb extension, and the Jupyter notebook doesn't allow me to convert the cell to Python.
When I click on the language button in the right-down corner, Python is on the list but it converts it automatically to…

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Why is a vulnerability identified by the OWASP Dependency-Check tool for Mule Runtime 4.4.0 if it doesn't actually belong to that version?
My mule application is built using mule runtime 4.4.0. In pom.xml of application, I have specified the "mule-http-connector@1.7.3" dependency as shown below:
org.mule.connectors
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IntelliJ Package Checker not finding vulnerabilities
As said in the title, I cannot find any vulnerabilities in my project using the bundled Package Search plugin to find dependencies vulnerabilities.
I use IntelliJ IDEA 2022.1.3 (Ultimate Edition), and I checked it by putting for example the…

Julien Gerber
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OWASP step fails due to itextpdf-5.5.12 dependency (CVE-2021-43113)
In our project pom.xml we use flying-saucer-pdf-itext5 version 9.1.22, which has a dependency on itextpdf version 5.5.12. Our pipeline fails due to OWASP step complaining about itextpdf related to this security…

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Why is a StackOverflowError worth a CVE?
Recently, vulnerability reports are accumulating against (Java) libraries that complain that the library offers a recursive function that may exhaust the available stack depth and cause a StackOverflowError on "malicious" input. The newest example…

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What is the "vulnerable: field in the cpe_match section of the CVEs in the NVD json feeds
I have looked for a long time top find what the "vulnerable" field of the "cpe_match" section of the "configurations" is. Most of the time that field is true, but there are CVEs where it is false. For example, CVE-2003-0947:
"configurations" : {
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what does the line "/mifs/.;/services/LogService" mean
I am trying to understand the CVE-2020-15505 - [RCE on MobileIron MDM]
from some references like:
https://blog.orange.tw/2020/09/how-i-hacked-facebook-again-mobileiron-mdm-rce.html
they all start there exploit by using "POST…

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Cannot scan a local (unpushed) image for CVEs with Anchore Grype - workarounds
Apparently it is not possible to perform a security scan for vulnerabilities in a Docker image using Anchore Grype unless that image was previously pushed to a registry.
This makes it currently unsuitable for gating your registry from vulnerable…

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ignore known vulnerability in npm audit
npm audit is part of my Bitbucket pipeline. I use quill which introduces an XSS vulnerability. It was shipped via cdn, but now my app serves this dependency itself. npm audit now fails because of the XSS.
I am not sure yet if this vulnerability is…

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fredsmith utils : CVE-2021-4277 fredsmith utils vulnerability
CVE NIST Description:
A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in fredsmith utils. This issue affects some unknown processing of the file screenshot_sync of the component Filename Handler. The manipulation leads to…

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should we scan yarn.lock files inside node_modules for CVEs?
AIM: we are trying to fix CVEs reported in an angular project (scanned using trivy scanner).
Problem: None of the packages mentioned as vulnerable(as per trivy report) are direct dependent packages (not present in package.json) and is already used…

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Why does Yocto Cve Check needs artifactory and took so long to find cves?
I am new to Yocto and would like to know how Yocto Cve check works.
Cve Check finds the patched/unpatched on version number & patch added to the recipe. Is this the only 2 methods Cve Check use?
Cve Check seems to fetch the package artifactory from…

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How to pull a report of server name/id and kernel version of all servers in AWS?
I am using SSM to run uname -srm to identify the kernel versions of all the EC2 instances in a bunch of AWS accounts in my project.
And I'm storing the results of SSM commands on S3
Next I'm downloading the S3 contents and doing a grep on the…

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How to solve log4j2 CVE (CVE-2021-44228) issues for application under JBoss 7.x
I've some issues in porting some application running in a JBoss 7.1 environment from log4j to log4j2.
I've ported my SW to log4j2 (2.17.1), but that is not enough. I'm understanding that JBoss configuration changes - not so simple - are needed to…

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