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SCA: security update for urllib3 (GHSA-v4w5-p2hg-8fh6)

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 434854

Description

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

 - Versions 1.17 and 1.18 of the Python urllib3 library suffer from a vulnerability that can cause them, in
 certain configurations, to not correctly validate TLS certificates. This places users of the library with
 those configurations at risk of man-in-the-middle and information leakage attacks. This vulnerability
 affects users using versions 1.17 and 1.18 of the urllib3 library, who are using the optional PyOpenSSL
 support for TLS instead of the regular standard library TLS backend, and who are using OpenSSL 1.1.0 via
 PyOpenSSL. This is an extremely uncommon configuration, so the security impact of this vulnerability is
 low. (CVE-2016-9015)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-v4w5-p2hg-8fh6

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 434854

Version: Revision 1.3

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: 1.2

Percentile: 0.01

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2.6

Temporal Score: 1.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2016-9015

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 3.7

Temporal Score: 3.2

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

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.3

Threat Score: 1.7

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/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: 10/27/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-9015

BID: 93941

cwe: CWE-295