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SCA: security update for Django (GHSA-qrh7-x6fp-c2mp)

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 434608

Description

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

 - The XML libraries for Python 3.4, 3.3, 3.2, 3.1, 2.7, and 2.6, as used in OpenStack Keystone Essex,
 Folsom, and Grizzly; Compute (Nova) Essex and Folsom; Cinder Folsom; Django; and possibly other products
 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource consumption and crash) via an XML Entity
 Expansion (XEE) attack. (CVE-2013-1664)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-qrh7-x6fp-c2mp

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 434608

Version: Revision 1.3

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 8/19/2025

Updated: 1/28/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 1.2

Percentile: 0.01

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2013-1664

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Temporal Score: 4.8

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

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: 1/16/2013

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2013-1664

BID: 58892

cwe: CWE-611