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SCA: security update for elastic-apm (GHSA-22jh-6gx8-f944)

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 434116

Description

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

 - When the Elastic APM agent for Python versions before 5.1.0 is run as a CGI script, there is a variable
 name clash flaw if a remote attacker can control the proxy header. This could result in an attacker
 redirecting collected APM data to a proxy of their choosing. (CVE-2019-7617)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-22jh-6gx8-f944

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 434116

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: 2.3

Percentile: 8.67

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.4

Temporal Score: 4.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-7617

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.2

Temporal Score: 6.3

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

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.9

Threat Score: 2.7

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/24/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/22/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-7617

cwe: CWE-20