SCA: security update for webargs (GHSA-8554-jxcw-454q)

critical Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 422057

Description

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

- An issue was discovered in webargs before 5.1.3, as used with marshmallow and other products. JSON parsing
uses a short-lived cache to store the parsed JSON body. This cache is not thread-safe, meaning that
incorrect JSON payloads could have been parsed for concurrent requests. (CVE-2019-9710)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-8554-jxcw-454q

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 422057

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: 4.9

Percentile: 57.15

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-9710

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.1

Temporal Score: 7.3

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

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.2

Threat Score: 8.2

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:P

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/12/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/12/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-9710

cwe: CWE-362