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SCA: security update for ansys-geometry-core (GHSA-38jr-29fh-w9vm)

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 409406

Description

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

 - PyAnsys Geometry is a Python client library for the Ansys Geometry service and other CAD Ansys products.
 On file src/ansys/geometry/core/connection/product_instance.py, upon calling this method _start_program
 directly, users could exploit its usage to perform malicious operations on the current machine where the
 script is ran. This vulnerability is fixed in 0.3.3 and 0.4.12. (CVE-2024-29189)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-38jr-29fh-w9vm

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 409406

Version: Revision 1.7

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: Medium

Score: 4.9

Percentile: 57.62

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-29189

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/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: 3/25/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/25/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-29189

cwe: CWE-78