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SCA: security update for patchelf (GHSA-5pcj-3m26-w633)

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 421759

Description

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

 - Patchelf v0.9 was discovered to contain an out-of-bounds read via the function modifyRPath at
 src/patchelf.cc. (CVE-2022-44940)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-5pcj-3m26-w633

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 421759

Version: Revision 1.3

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: 4.3

Percentile: 53.04

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9.4

Temporal Score: 7.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-44940

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.1

Temporal Score: 8.2

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

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Threat Score: 7.8

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:P

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/20/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/19/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-44940

cwe: CWE-125