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SCA: security update for aiohttp (GHSA-45c4-8wx5-qw6w)

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 409957

Description

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

 - aiohttp is an asynchronous HTTP client/server framework for asyncio and Python. aiohttp v3.8.4 and earlier
 are bundled with llhttp v6.0.6. Vulnerable code is used by aiohttp for its HTTP request parser when
 available which is the default case when installing from a wheel. This vulnerability only affects users of
 aiohttp as an HTTP server (ie `aiohttp.Application`), you are not affected by this vulnerability if you
 are using aiohttp as an HTTP client library (ie `aiohttp.ClientSession`). Sending a crafted HTTP request
 will cause the server to misinterpret one of the HTTP header values leading to HTTP request smuggling.
 This issue has been addressed in version 3.8.5. Users are advised to upgrade. Users unable to upgrade can
 reinstall aiohttp using `AIOHTTP_NO_EXTENSIONS=1` as an environment variable to disable the llhttp HTTP
 request parser implementation. The pure Python implementation isn't vulnerable. (CVE-2023-37276)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-45c4-8wx5-qw6w

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 409957

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: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.51

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.1

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-37276

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:H/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.9

Threat Score: 5.5

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:P

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/20/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/19/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-37276

cwe: CWE-444