Detections
Analytics

SCA: security update for astropy (GHSA-h2x6-5jx5-46hf)

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 415416

Description

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

 - Astropy is a project for astronomy in Python that fosters interoperability between Python astronomy
 packages. Version 5.3.2 of the Astropy core package is vulnerable to remote code execution due to improper
 input validation in the `TranformGraph().to_dot_graph` function. A malicious user can provide a command or
 a script file as a value to the `savelayout` argument, which will be placed as the first value in a list
 of arguments passed to `subprocess.Popen`. Although an error will be raised, the command or script will be
 executed successfully. Version 5.3.3 fixes this issue. (CVE-2023-41334)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-h2x6-5jx5-46hf

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 415416

Version: Revision 1.12

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: Medium

Score: 4.9

Percentile: 57.58

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.2

Temporal Score: 5.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-41334

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.4

Temporal Score: 7.6

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/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: 3/18/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/18/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-41334