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SCA: security update for AsyncSSH (GHSA-97cv-6pjf-5f9q)

critical Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 432456

Description

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

 - The SSH server implementation of AsyncSSH before 1.12.1 does not properly check whether authentication is
 completed before processing other requests. A customized SSH client can simply skip the authentication
 step. (CVE-2018-7749)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-97cv-6pjf-5f9q

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 432456

Version: Revision 1.2

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 8/8/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.9

Percentile: 57.12

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Critical

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-7749

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

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

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.3

Threat Score: 8.1

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/14/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/12/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-7749

cwe: CWE-287