SCA: security update for github.com/sagernet/sing, github.com/sagernet/sing-box (GHSA-r5hm-mp3j-285g)

critical Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 418505

Description

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

- Sing-box is an open source proxy system. Affected versions are subject to an authentication bypass when
specially crafted requests are sent to sing-box. This affects all SOCKS5 inbounds with user authentication
and an attacker may be able to bypass authentication. Users are advised to update to sing-box 1.4.4 or to
1.5.0-rc.4. Users unable to update should not expose the SOCKS5 inbound to insecure environments.
(CVE-2023-43644)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-r5hm-mp3j-285g

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 418505

Version: Revision 1.12

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: 57.58

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Critical

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-43644

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

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:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/26/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/25/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-43644

cwe: CWE-306