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SCA: security update for pyftpdlib (GHSA-hw4g-fhcp-x5mq)

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 415975

Description

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

 - Race condition in the FTPHandler class in ftpserver.py in pyftpdlib before 0.5.2 allows remote attackers
 to cause a denial of service (daemon outage) by establishing and then immediately closing a TCP
 connection, leading to the accept function having an unexpected value of None for the address, or an
 ECONNABORTED, EAGAIN, or EWOULDBLOCK error, a related issue to CVE-2010-3492. (CVE-2010-3494)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-hw4g-fhcp-x5mq

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 415975

Version: Revision 1.6

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: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.2

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2010-3494

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

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

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.7

Threat Score: 6.6

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/17/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/15/2010

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2010-3494

BID: 43233

cwe: CWE-362