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SCA: security update for pear/http_request2 (GHSA-w7gh-f2fm-9q8r)

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 434661

Description

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

 - In PEAR HTTP_Request2 before 2.7.0, multiple files in the tests directory, notably
 tests/_network/getparameters.php and tests/_network/postparameters.php, reflect any GET or POST
 parameters, leading to XSS. (CVE-2025-43717)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-w7gh-f2fm-9q8r

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 434661

Version: Revision 1.5

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: 9.07

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4

Temporal Score: 3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-43717

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.4

Temporal Score: 4.7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/17/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/17/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-43717