SCA: security update for github.com/open-policy-agent/opa (GHSA-c77r-fh37-x2px)

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 421328

Description

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

- A SMB force-authentication vulnerability exists in all versions of OPA for Windows prior to v0.68.0. The
vulnerability exists because of improper input validation, allowing a user to pass an arbitrary SMB share
instead of a Rego file as an argument to OPA CLI or to one of the OPA Go library’s functions.
(CVE-2024-8260)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-c77r-fh37-x2px

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 421328

Version: Revision 1.10

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 3/28/2025

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: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-8260

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.3

Temporal Score: 6.4

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

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.2

Threat Score: 1.8

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/30/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/30/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-8260

cwe: CWE-294