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SCA: security update for knative.dev/serving (GHSA-qmvj-4qr9-v547)

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 418220

Description

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

 - Knative Serving builds on Kubernetes to support deploying and serving of applications and functions as
 serverless containers. An attacker who controls a pod to a degree where they can control the responses
 from the /metrics endpoint can cause Denial-of-Service of the autoscaler from an unbound memory allocation
 bug. This is a DoS vulnerability, where a non-privileged Knative user can cause a DoS for the cluster.
 This issue has been patched in version 0.39.0. (CVE-2023-48713)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-qmvj-4qr9-v547

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 418220

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: 23.51

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.9

Temporal Score: 3.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-48713

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Temporal Score: 4.6

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

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/27/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/27/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-48713

cwe: CWE-400