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SCA: security update for phpseclib/phpseclib (GHSA-ff7q-6vwh-v9m4)

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 414466

Description

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

 - In phpseclib before 1.0.22, 2.x before 2.0.46, and 3.x before 3.0.33, some characters in Subject
 Alternative Name fields in TLS certificates are incorrectly allowed to have a special meaning in regular
 expressions (such as a + wildcard), leading to name confusion in X.509 certificate host verification.
 (CVE-2023-52892)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-ff7q-6vwh-v9m4

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 414466

Version: Revision 1.10

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: 23.52

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.1

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-52892

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.7

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:P/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.7

Threat Score: 7.7

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:P

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/28/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/27/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-52892

cwe: CWE-436