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SCA: security update for FormEncode (GHSA-9jp4-68vc-r8wq)

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 434782

Description

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

 - schema.py in FormEncode for Python (python-formencode) 1.0 does not apply the chained_validators feature,
 which allows attackers to bypass intended access restrictions via unknown vectors. (CVE-2008-6547)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-9jp4-68vc-r8wq

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 434782

Version: Revision 1.2

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 8/20/2025

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: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2008-6547

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

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

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.7

Threat Score: 6.6

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/17/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/25/2008

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2008-6547

BID: 30282

cwe: CWE-20