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SCA: security update for github.com/open-policy-agent/opa (GHSA-hcw3-j74m-qc58)

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 415650

Description

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

 - OPA is an open source, general-purpose policy engine. Under certain conditions, pretty-printing an
 abstract syntax tree (AST) that contains synthetic nodes could change the logic of some statements by
 reordering array literals. Example of policies impacted are those that parse and compare web paths. **All
 of these** three conditions have to be met to create an adverse effect: 1. An AST of Rego had to be
 **created programmatically** such that it ends up containing terms without a location (such as wildcard
 variables). 2. The AST had to be **pretty-printed** using the `github.com/open-policy-agent/opa/format`
 package. 3. The result of the pretty-printing had to be **parsed and evaluated again** via an OPA instance
 using the bundles, or the Golang packages. If any of these three conditions are not met, you are not
 affected. Notably, all three would be true if using **optimized bundles**, i.e. bundles created with `opa
 build -O=1` or higher. In that case, the optimizer would fulfil condition (1.), the result of that would
 be pretty-printed when writing the bundle to disk, fulfilling (2.). When the bundle was then used, we'd
 satisfy (3.). As a workaround users may disable optimization when creating bundles. (CVE-2022-23628)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-hcw3-j74m-qc58

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 415650

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: 1.2

Percentile: 0.01

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-23628

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Temporal Score: 4.8

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

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/9/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/9/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-23628

cwe: CWE-682