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SCA: security update for scitokens (GHSA-3x2w-63fp-3qvw)

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 439555

Description

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

 - SciTokens is a reference library for generating and using SciTokens. Prior to version 1.9.7, the Enforcer
 is vulnerable to a path traversal attack where an attacker can use dot-dot (..) in the scope claim of a
 token to escape the intended directory restriction. This occurs because the library normalizes both the
 authorized path (from the token) and the requested path (from the application) before comparing them using
 startswith. This issue has been patched in version 1.9.7. (CVE-2026-32727)

Solution

Update the scitokens library and its related packages to version 1.9.7 or later.

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-3x2w-63fp-3qvw

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 439555

Version: Revision 1.5

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 4/1/2026

Updated: 6/1/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.73

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-32727

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/31/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/31/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-32727

cwe: CWE-22