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SCA: security update for github.com/crossplane/crossplane-runtime (GHSA-vfvj-3m3g-m532)

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 419309

Description

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

 - crossplane-runtime is a set of go libraries used to build Kubernetes controllers in Crossplane and its
 related stacks. An out of memory panic vulnerability has been discovered in affected versions.
 Applications that use the `Paved` type's `SetValue` method with user provided input without proper
 validation might use excessive amounts of memory and cause an out of memory panic. In the fieldpath
 package, the Paved.SetValue method sets a value on the Paved object according to the provided path,
 without any validation. This allows setting values in slices at any provided index, which grows the target
 array up to the requested index, the index is currently capped at max uint32 (4294967295) given how
 indexes are parsed, but that is still an unnecessarily large value. If callers are not validating paths'
 indexes on their own, which most probably are not going to do, given that the input is parsed directly in
 the SetValue method, this could allow users to consume arbitrary amounts of memory. Applications that do
 not use the `Paved` type's `SetValue` method are not affected. This issue has been addressed in versions
 0.16.1 and 0.19.2. Users are advised to upgrade. Users unable to upgrade can parse and validate the path
 before passing it to the `SetValue` method of the `Paved` type, constraining the index size as deemed
 appropriate. (CVE-2023-27483)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-vfvj-3m3g-m532

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 419309

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: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 5.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-27483

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

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:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/13/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/9/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-27483