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SCA: security update for github.com/apache/trafficcontrol (GHSA-f2wr-c4c4-xjg7)

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 428337

Description

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

 - The Traffic Router component of the incubating Apache Traffic Control project is vulnerable to a Slowloris
 style Denial of Service attack. TCP connections made on the configured DNS port will remain in the
 ESTABLISHED state until the client explicitly closes the connection or Traffic Router is restarted. If
 connections remain in the ESTABLISHED state indefinitely and accumulate in number to match the size of the
 thread pool dedicated to processing DNS requests, the thread pool becomes exhausted. Once the thread pool
 is exhausted, Traffic Router is unable to service any DNS request, regardless of transport protocol.
 (CVE-2017-7670)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-f2wr-c4c4-xjg7

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 428337

Version: Revision 1.2

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 7/9/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.18

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-2017-7670

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

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:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/13/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/12/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-7670

BID: 99486

cwe: CWE-400