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SCA: security update for github.com/k3s-io/k3s (GHSA-m4hf-6vgr-75r2)

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 416721

Description

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

 - An Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling vulnerability in SUSE k3s allows attackers with
 access to K3s servers' apiserver/supervisor port (TCP 6443) cause denial of service. This issue affects
 k3s: from v1.24.0 before v1.24.17+k3s1, from v1.25.0 before v1.25.13+k3s1, from v1.26.0 before
 v1.26.8+k3s1, from sev1.27.0 before v1.27.5+k3s1, from v1.28.0 before v1.28.1+k3s1. (CVE-2023-32187)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-m4hf-6vgr-75r2

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 416721

Version: Revision 1.7

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 1/23/2025

Updated: 6/1/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.51

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 5.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-32187

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/11/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/11/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-32187

cwe: CWE-770