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SCA: security update for python-cjson (GHSA-cqmh-mpx2-g633)

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 414037

Description

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

 - Buffer overflow in Dan Pascu python-cjson 1.0.5, when UCS-4 encoding is enabled, allows context-dependent
 attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via
 vectors involving crafted Unicode input to the cjson.encode function. (CVE-2010-1666)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-cqmh-mpx2-g633

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 414037

Version: Revision 1.4

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: 2.8

Percentile: 22.22

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2010-1666

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.3

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.9

Threat Score: 2.7

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/17/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/25/2010

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2010-1666

BID: 41279

cwe: CWE-119