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SCA: security update for auth0/auth0-php (GHSA-w3wc-44p4-m4j7)

critical Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 439678

Description

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

 - Auth0-PHP is a PHP SDK for Auth0 Authentication and Management APIs. From version 8.0.0 to before version
 8.19.0, in applications built with the Auth0 PHP SDK, cookies are encrypted with insufficient entropy,
 which may result in threat actors brute-forcing the encryption key and forging session cookies. This issue
 has been patched in version 8.19.0. (CVE-2026-34236)

Solution

Update the auth0/auth0-php library and its related packages to version 8.19.0 or later.

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-w3wc-44p4-m4j7

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 439678

Version: Revision 1.7

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 4/2/2026

Updated: 7/2/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.9

Percentile: 96.96

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-34236

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/1/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/1/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-34236

cwe: CWE-331