Vulnerability Report

CVE-2021-23358

RCE

Title: Tenable Tenable.Sc RCE

RCE

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2021-23358.

CWE Category CWE-94
Published Date Mar 29, 2021
Modified Date Nov 03, 2025
Exploit Status Not Found
Score 3.3 CVSS v3.1
Exploit Probability (EPSS)
1.45%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2021-23358: The package underscore from 1.13.0-0 and before 1.13.0-2, from 1.3.2 and before 1.12.1 are vulnerable to Arbitrary Code Injection via the template function, particularly when a variable property is passed as an argument as it is not sanitized.

Impacted Vendors

Reference Links

https://github.com/jashkenas/underscore/blob/master/modules/template.js%23L71 https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r5df90c46f7000c4aab246e947f62361ecfb849c5a553dcdb0ef545e1%40%3Cissues.cordova.apache.org%3E https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r770f910653772317b117ab4472b0a32c266ee4abbafda28b8a6f9306%40%3Cissues.cordova.apache.org%3E https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/raae088abdfa4fbd84e1d19d7a7ffe52bf8e426b83e6599ea9a734dba%40%3Cissues.cordova.apache.org%3E https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rbc84926bacd377503a3f5c37b923c1931f9d343754488d94e6f08039%40%3Cissues.cordova.apache.org%3E https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/re69ee408b3983b43e9c4a82a9a17cbbf8681bb91a4b61b46f365aeaf%40%3Cissues.cordova.apache.org%3E https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/03/msg00038.html https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/EOKATXXETD2PF3OR36Q5PD2VSVAR6J5Z/ https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/FGEE7U4Z655A2MK5EW4UQQZ7B64XJWBV/ https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JAVA-ORGWEBJARSBOWER-1081504 https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JAVA-ORGWEBJARSBOWERGITHUBJASHKENAS-1081505 https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JAVA-ORGWEBJARSNPM-1081503 https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-UNDERSCORE-1080984 https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4883 https://www.tenable.com/security/tns-2021-14 http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2025/Apr/14 https://github.com/jashkenas/underscore/blob/master/modules/template.js%23L71 https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r5df90c46f7000c4aab246e947f62361ecfb849c5a553dcdb0ef545e1%40%3Cissues.cordova.apache.org%3E https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r770f910653772317b117ab4472b0a32c266ee4abbafda28b8a6f9306%40%3Cissues.cordova.apache.org%3E https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/raae088abdfa4fbd84e1d19d7a7ffe52bf8e426b83e6599ea9a734dba%40%3Cissues.cordova.apache.org%3E https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rbc84926bacd377503a3f5c37b923c1931f9d343754488d94e6f08039%40%3Cissues.cordova.apache.org%3E https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/re69ee408b3983b43e9c4a82a9a17cbbf8681bb91a4b61b46f365aeaf%40%3Cissues.cordova.apache.org%3E https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/03/msg00038.html https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/EOKATXXETD2PF3OR36Q5PD2VSVAR6J5Z/ https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/FGEE7U4Z655A2MK5EW4UQQZ7B64XJWBV/ https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20240808-0003/ https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20241108-0002/ https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JAVA-ORGWEBJARSBOWER-1081504 https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JAVA-ORGWEBJARSBOWERGITHUBJASHKENAS-1081505 https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JAVA-ORGWEBJARSNPM-1081503 https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-UNDERSCORE-1080984 https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4883 https://www.tenable.com/security/tns-2021-14
CVSS v3.1
Source Entity [email protected]
Severity LOW
3.3
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Complexity
HIGH
Privileges
N/A
Interaction
NONE
Confidentiality
N/A
Integrity
N/A
Availability
N/A
Scope
UNCHANGED
RAW VECTOR CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
CVSS v3.1
Source Entity [email protected]
Severity HIGH
7.2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Complexity
LOW
Privileges
N/A
Interaction
NONE
Confidentiality
N/A
Integrity
N/A
Availability
N/A
Scope
UNCHANGED
RAW VECTOR CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v2.0
Source Entity [email protected]
Severity MEDIUM
6.5
Access Vector
N/A
Authentication
N/A
RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2021-23358 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector NETWORK
Complexity HIGH
Privileges N/A
Interaction NONE
CVSS Vector String CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.