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SCA: security update for aws-cdk-lib (GHSA-v4mq-x674-ff73)

low Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 421287

Description

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

 - The AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK) is an open-source software development framework to define cloud
 infrastructure in code and provision it through AWS CloudFormation. Users who use IAM OIDC custom resource
 provider package will download CA Thumbprints as part of the custom resource workflow. However, the
 current `tls.connect` method will always set `rejectUnauthorized: false` which is a potential security
 concern. CDK should follow the best practice and set `rejectUnauthorized: true`. However, this could be a
 breaking change for existing CDK applications and we should fix this with a feature flag. Note that this
 is marked as low severity Security advisory because the issuer url is provided by CDK users who define the
 CDK application. If they insist on connecting to a unauthorized OIDC provider, CDK should not disallow
 this. Additionally, the code block is run in a Lambda environment which mitigate the MITM attack. The
 patch is in progress. To mitigate, upgrade to CDK v2.177.0 (Expected release date 2025-02-22). Once
 upgraded, users should make sure the feature flag '@aws-cdk/aws-iam:oidcRejectUnauthorizedConnections' is
 set to true in `cdk.context.json` or `cdk.json`. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.
 (CVE-2025-23206)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-v4mq-x674-ff73

Plugin Details

Severity: Low

ID: 421287

Version: Revision 1.10

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 3/28/2025

Updated: 7/1/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.3

Percentile: 53.37

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Low

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.5

Temporal Score: 6.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-23206

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.1

Temporal Score: 7.1

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

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 1.8

Threat Score: 0.2

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/17/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/17/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-23206

cwe: CWE-347