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SCA: security update for pywbem (GHSA-gh2c-6m38-c78j)

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 434886

Description

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

 - PyWBEM 0.7 and earlier does not verify that the server hostname matches a domain name in the subject's
 Common Name (CN) or subjectAltName field of the X.509 certificate, which allows man-in-the-middle
 attackers to spoof SSL servers via an arbitrary valid certificate. (CVE-2013-6444)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-gh2c-6m38-c78j

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 434886

Version: Revision 1.8

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: 2.1

Percentile: 6.95

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.8

Temporal Score: 4.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2013-6444

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.4

Temporal Score: 4.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/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:L/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: 12/19/2013

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2013-6444

BID: 64544

cwe: CWE-20