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SCA: security update for matrix-sydent (GHSA-mh74-4m5g-fcjx)

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 416970

Description

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

 - Sydent is a reference matrix identity server. A malicious user could abuse Sydent to send out arbitrary
 emails from the Sydent email address. This could be used to construct plausible phishing emails, for
 example. This issue has been fixed in 4469d1d. (CVE-2021-29432)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-mh74-4m5g-fcjx

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 416970

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: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 3.5

Temporal Score: 2.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-29432

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.7

Temporal Score: 5

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

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.9

Threat Score: 2.7

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/19/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/15/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-29432

cwe: CWE-20