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SCA: security update for OWSLib (GHSA-8h9c-r582-mggc)

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 412698

Description

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

 - OWSLib is a Python package for client programming with Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) web service
 interface standards, and their related content models. OWSLib's XML parser (which supports both `lxml` and
 `xml.etree`) does not disable entity resolution, and could lead to arbitrary file reads from an attacker-
 controlled XML payload. This affects all XML parsing in the codebase. This issue has been addressed in
 version 0.28.1. All users are advised to upgrade. The only known workaround is to patch the library
 manually. See `GHSA-8h9c-r582-mggc` for details. (CVE-2023-27476)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-8h9c-r582-mggc

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 412698

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: 23.69

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 5.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-27476

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/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: 8.8

Threat Score: 6.7

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/7/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/7/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-27476

cwe: CWE-611