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SCA: security update for protobuf (GHSA-8qvm-5x2c-j2w7)

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 427880

Description

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

 - Any project that uses Protobuf Pure-Python backend to parse untrusted Protocol Buffers data containing an
 arbitrary number of recursive groups, recursive messages or a series of SGROUP tags can be corrupted by
 exceeding the Python recursion limit. This can result in a Denial of service by crashing the application
 with a RecursionError. We recommend upgrading to version =>6.31.1 or beyond commit
 17838beda2943d08b8a9d4df5b68f5f04f26d901 (CVE-2025-4565)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-8qvm-5x2c-j2w7

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 427880

Version: Revision 1.11

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 6/16/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 1.2

Percentile: 0.01

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-4565

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Temporal Score: 4.6

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

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.2

Threat Score: 4.6

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/16/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/16/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-4565

cwe: CWE-674