SCA: security update for open-web-analytics/open-web-analytics (GHSA-pr9q-v585-qv2w)

critical Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 417680

Description

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

- Open Web Analytics (OWA) before 1.7.4 allows an unauthenticated remote attacker to obtain sensitive user
information, which can be used to gain admin privileges by leveraging cache hashes. This occurs because
files generated with '<?php (instead of the intended "<?php sequence) aren't handled by the PHP
interpreter. (CVE-2022-24637)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-pr9q-v585-qv2w

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 417680

Version: Revision 1.7

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: 57.5

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Critical

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 4.1

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-24637

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 9.1

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:F/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/19/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/18/2022

Exploitable With

Metasploit (Open Web Analytics 1.7.3 - Remote Code Execution (RCE))

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-24637

cwe: CWE-269