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SCA: security update for github.com/anchore/syft (GHSA-jp7v-3587-2956)

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 416487

Description

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

 - syft is a a CLI tool and Go library for generating a Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) from container
 images and filesystems. A password disclosure flaw was found in Syft versions v0.69.0 and v0.69.1. This
 flaw leaks the password stored in the SYFT_ATTEST_PASSWORD environment variable. The
 `SYFT_ATTEST_PASSWORD` environment variable is for the `syft attest` command to generate attested SBOMs
 for the given container image. This environment variable is used to decrypt the private key (provided with
 `syft attest --key <path-to-key-file>`) during the signing process while generating an SBOM attestation.
 This vulnerability affects users running syft that have the `SYFT_ATTEST_PASSWORD` environment variable
 set with credentials (regardless of if the attest command is being used or not). Users that do not have
 the environment variable `SYFT_ATTEST_PASSWORD` set are not affected by this issue. The credentials are
 leaked in two ways: in the syft logs when `-vv` or `-vvv` are used in the syft command (which is any log
 level >= `DEBUG`) and in the attestation or SBOM only when the `syft-json` format is used. Note that as of
 v0.69.0 any generated attestations by the `syft attest` command are uploaded to the OCI registry (if you
 have write access to that registry) in the same way `cosign attach` is done. This means that any
 attestations generated for the affected versions of syft when the `SYFT_ATTEST_PASSWORD` environment
 variable was set would leak credentials in the attestation payload uploaded to the OCI registry. This
 issue has been patched in commit `9995950c70` and has been released as v0.70.0. There are no workarounds
 for this vulnerability. Users are advised to upgrade. (CVE-2023-24827)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-jp7v-3587-2956

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 416487

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: 23.51

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

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-2023-24827

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/8/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/7/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-24827