SCA: security update for bottle (GHSA-873q-wpqr-xfgw)

critical Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 433644

Description

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

- Bottle 0.10.x before 0.10.12, 0.11.x before 0.11.7, and 0.12.x before 0.12.6 does not properly limit
content types, which allows remote attackers to bypass intended access restrictions via an accepted
Content-Type followed by a ; (semi-colon) and a Content-Type that would not be accepted, as demonstrated
in YouCompleteMe to execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2014-3137)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-873q-wpqr-xfgw

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 433644

Version: Revision 1.2

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 8/19/2025

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: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2014-3137

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: 5/17/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/1/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-3137

BID: 67711

cwe: CWE-20