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SCA: security update for sshpk (GHSA-2m39-62fm-q8r3)

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 423313

Description

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

 - sshpk is vulnerable to ReDoS when parsing crafted invalid public keys. (CVE-2018-3737)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-2m39-62fm-q8r3

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 423313

Version: Revision 1.3

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 3/29/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.38

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-3737

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/15/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/24/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-3737