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SCA: security update for twisted (GHSA-rv6r-3f5q-9rgx)

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 418925

Description

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

 - Twisted is an event-based framework for internet applications, supporting Python 3.6+. Prior to 22.2.0,
 Twisted SSH client and server implement is able to accept an infinite amount of data for the peer's SSH
 version identifier. This ends up with a buffer using all the available memory. The attach is a simple as
 `nc -rv localhost 22 < /dev/zero`. A patch is available in version 22.2.0. There are currently no known
 workarounds. (CVE-2022-21716)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-rv6r-3f5q-9rgx

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 418925

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: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.18

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-21716

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.7

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

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.7

Threat Score: 7.7

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:P

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/3/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/3/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-21716