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SCA: security update for websockets (GHSA-8ch4-58qp-g3mp)

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 412597

Description

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

 - The aaugustin websockets library before 9.1 for Python has an Observable Timing Discrepancy on servers
 when HTTP Basic Authentication is enabled with basic_auth_protocol_factory(credentials=...). An attacker
 may be able to guess a password via a timing attack. (CVE-2021-33880)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-8ch4-58qp-g3mp

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 412597

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: 23.18

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2.6

Temporal Score: 1.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-33880

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.9

Temporal Score: 5.2

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

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.2

Threat Score: 4.6

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/11/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/6/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-33880