SCA: security update for reportlab (GHSA-mpvw-25mg-59vx)

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 417068

Description

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

- All versions of package reportlab are vulnerable to Server-side Request Forgery (SSRF) via img tags. In
order to reduce risk, use trustedSchemes & trustedHosts (see in Reportlab's documentation) Steps to
reproduce by Karan Bamal: 1. Download and install the latest package of reportlab 2. Go to demos ->
odyssey -> dodyssey 3. In the text file odyssey.txt that needs to be converted to pdf inject <img
src="http://127.0.0.1:5000" valign="top"/> 4. Create a nc listener nc -lp 5000 5. Run python3 dodyssey.py
6. You will get a hit on your nc showing we have successfully proceded to send a server side request 7.
dodyssey.py will show error since there is no img file on the url, but we are able to do SSRF
(CVE-2020-28463)

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 417068

Version: Revision 1.5

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

Temporal Score: 3.1

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-28463

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.1

Threat Score: 5.7

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:P

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/29/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/18/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-28463

cwe: CWE-918

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