SCA: security update for reportlab (GHSA-qpg2-vx7j-3869)

critical Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 418233

Description

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

- ReportLab through 3.5.26 allows remote code execution because of toColor(eval(arg)) in colors.py, as
demonstrated by a crafted XML document with '<span color="' followed by arbitrary Python code.
(CVE-2019-17626)

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 418233

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: 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-2019-17626

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.3

Threat Score: 8.9

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:P

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/24/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/16/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-17626

cwe: CWE-91

Detections

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