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SCA: security update for openssl (GHSA-mmrq-6999-72v8)

critical Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 432923

Description

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

 - An issue was discovered in the OpenSSL library in Ruby before 2.3.8, 2.4.x before 2.4.5, 2.5.x before
 2.5.2, and 2.6.x before 2.6.0-preview3. When two OpenSSL::X509::Name objects are compared using ==,
 depending on the ordering, non-equal objects may return true. When the first argument is one character
 longer than the second, or the second argument contains a character that is one less than a character in
 the same position of the first argument, the result of == will be true. This could be leveraged to create
 an illegitimate certificate that may be accepted as legitimate and then used in signing or encryption
 operations. (CVE-2018-16395)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-mmrq-6999-72v8

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 432923

Version: Revision 1.2

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 8/11/2025

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-2018-16395

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/13/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/17/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-16395

BID: 105952