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SCA: security update for net.opentsdb:opentsdb (GHSA-76f7-9v52-v2fw)

critical Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 411866

Description

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

 - OpenTSDB is a open source, distributed, scalable Time Series Database (TSDB). OpenTSDB is vulnerable to
 Remote Code Execution vulnerability by writing user-controlled input to Gnuplot configuration file and
 running Gnuplot with the generated configuration. This issue has been patched in commit `07c4641471c` and
 further refined in commit `fa88d3e4b`. These patches are available in the `2.4.2` release. Users are
 advised to upgrade. User unable to upgrade may disable Gunuplot via the config option`tsd.core.enable_ui =
 true` and remove the shell files `mygnuplot.bat` and `mygnuplot.sh`. (CVE-2023-36812)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-76f7-9v52-v2fw

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 411866

Version: Revision 1.8

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: 57.58

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Critical

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 8.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-36812

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 9.1

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

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/30/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/30/2023

Exploitable With

Metasploit (OpenTSDB 2.4.1 unauthenticated command injection)

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-36812

cwe: CWE-74