Detections
Analytics

SCA: security update for apache-libcloud (GHSA-prcq-52f8-fp44)

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 433783

Description

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

 - Apache Libcloud before 0.11.1 uses an incorrect regular expression during verification of whether the
 server hostname matches a domain name in the subject's Common Name (CN) or subjectAltName field of the
 X.509 certificate, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof SSL servers via a crafted
 certificate. (CVE-2012-3446)

Solution

Update the apache-libcloud library and its related packages to version 0.11.1 or later.

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-prcq-52f8-fp44

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 433783

Version: Revision 1.3

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: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.18

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.8

Temporal Score: 4.5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2012-3446

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.9

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/17/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/3/2012

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-3446

BID: 54798