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SCA: security update for org.neo4j:neo4j (GHSA-pc4w-8v5j-29w9)

critical Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 417446

Description

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

 - Neo4j through 3.4.18 (with the shell server enabled) exposes an RMI service that arbitrarily deserializes
 Java objects, e.g., through setSessionVariable. An attacker can abuse this for remote code execution
 because there are dependencies with exploitable gadget chains. (CVE-2021-34371)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-pc4w-8v5j-29w9

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 417446

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: Medium

Score: 4.9

Percentile: 57.15

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Critical

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-34371

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.8

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

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/1/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/5/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-34371

cwe: CWE-502