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SCA: security update for cbor2 (GHSA-375g-39jq-vq7m)

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 409362

Description

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

 - cbor2 provides encoding and decoding for the Concise Binary Object Representation (CBOR) (RFC 8949)
 serialization format. Starting in version 5.5.1 and prior to version 5.6.2, an attacker can crash a
 service using cbor2 to parse a CBOR binary by sending a long enough object. Version 5.6.2 contains a patch
 for this issue. (CVE-2024-26134)

Solution

Update the cbor2 library and its related packages to version 5.6.2 or later.

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-375g-39jq-vq7m

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 409362

Version: Revision 1.5

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 1/23/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.51

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.1

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-26134

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.7

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:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/21/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/19/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-26134

cwe: CWE-120