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SCA: security update for trove (GHSA-98c8-36p9-gw66)

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 434745

Description

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

 - The _write_config function in trove/guestagent/datastore/experimental/mongodb/service.py,
 reset_configuration function in trove/guestagent/datastore/experimental/postgresql/service/config.py,
 write_config function in trove/guestagent/datastore/experimental/redis/service.py, _write_mycnf function
 in trove/guestagent/datastore/mysql/service.py, InnoBackupEx::_run_prepare function in
 trove/guestagent/strategies/restore/mysql_impl.py, InnoBackupEx::cmd function in
 trove/guestagent/strategies/backup/mysql_impl.py, MySQLDump::cmd in
 trove/guestagent/strategies/backup/mysql_impl.py, InnoBackupExIncremental::cmd function in
 trove/guestagent/strategies/backup/mysql_impl.py, _get_actual_db_status function in
 trove/guestagent/datastore/experimental/cassandra/system.py and
 trove/guestagent/datastore/experimental/cassandra/service.py, and multiple class CbBackup methods in
 trove/guestagent/strategies/backup/experimental/couchbase_impl.py in Openstack DBaaS (aka Trove) as
 packaged in Openstack before 2015.1.0 (aka Kilo) allows local users to write to configuration files via a
 symlink attack on a temporary file. (CVE-2015-3156)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-98c8-36p9-gw66

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 434745

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: Low

Base Score: 2.1

Temporal Score: 1.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2015-3156

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 4.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/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: 5/17/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/11/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-3156

cwe: CWE-59