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SCA: security update for numpy (GHSA-f7c7-j99h-c22f)

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 414358

Description

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

 - Buffer overflow in the array_from_pyobj function of fortranobject.c in NumPy < 1.19, which allows
 attackers to conduct a Denial of Service attacks by carefully constructing an array with negative values.
 NOTE: The vendor does not agree this is a vulnerability; the negative dimensions can only be created by an
 already privileged user (or internally) (CVE-2021-41496)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-f7c7-j99h-c22f

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 414358

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: 3

Percentile: 23.18

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2.1

Temporal Score: 1.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-41496

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/8/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/17/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-41496

cwe: CWE-120