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SCA: security update for twisted (GHSA-65rm-h285-5cc5)

critical Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 422180

Description

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

 - In words.protocols.jabber.xmlstream in Twisted through 19.2.1, XMPP support did not verify certificates
 when used with TLS, allowing an attacker to MITM connections. (CVE-2019-12855)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-65rm-h285-5cc5

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 422180

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: Critical

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.8

Temporal Score: 4.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-12855

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.4

Temporal Score: 6.4

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/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: Critical

Base Score: 9.1

Threat Score: 6.9

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/16/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/16/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-12855

BID: 109094

cwe: CWE-295