SCA: security update for Products.PluggableAuthService (GHSA-p44j-xrqg-4xrr)

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 417260

Description

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

- Products.PluggableAuthService is a pluggable Zope authentication and authorization framework. In
Products.PluggableAuthService before version 2.6.0 there is an open redirect vulnerability. A maliciously
crafted link to the login form and login functionality could redirect the browser to a different website.
The problem has been fixed in version 2.6.1. Depending on how you have installed
Products.PluggableAuthService, you should change the buildout version pin to `2.6.1` and re-run the
buildout, or if you used `pip` simply do `pip install "Products.PluggableAuthService>=2.6.1".
(CVE-2021-21337)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-p44j-xrqg-4xrr

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 417260

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: 2.3

Percentile: 8.67

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.8

Temporal Score: 4.5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-21337

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.1

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.9

Threat Score: 5.5

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:P

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:P/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: 3/8/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/8/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-21337

cwe: CWE-601