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SCA: security update for org.apache.systemds:systemds, systemds (GHSA-m43h-hfrq-x8wx)

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 416705

Description

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

 - The Security Team noticed that the termination condition of the for loop in the readExternal method is a
 controllable variable, which, if tampered with, may lead to CPU exhaustion. As a fix, we added an upper
 bound and termination condition in the read and write logic. We classify it as a "low-priority but useful
 improvement". SystemDS is a distributed system and needs to serialize/deserialize data but in many code
 paths (e.g., on Spark broadcast/shuffle or writing to sequence files) the byte stream is anyway protected
 by additional CRC fingerprints. In this particular case though, the number of decoders is upper-bounded by
 twice the number of columns, which means an attacker would need to modify two entries in the byte stream
 in a consistent manner. By adding these checks robustness was strictly improved with almost zero overhead.
 These code changes are available in versions higher than 2.2.1. (CVE-2022-26477)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-m43h-hfrq-x8wx

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 416705

Version: Revision 1.8

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: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-26477

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: 6/28/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/27/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-26477

cwe: CWE-400