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SCA: security update for uuid (GHSA-w5hq-g745-h8pq)

critical Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 440758

Description

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

 - uuid is for the creation of RFC9562 (formerly RFC4122) UUIDs. Prior to 14.0.0, v3, v5, and v6 accept
 external output buffers but do not reject out-of-range writes (small buf or large offset). This allows
 silent partial writes into caller-provided buffers. This vulnerability is fixed in 14.0.0.
 (CVE-2026-41907)

Solution

Update the uuid library and its related packages to version 11.1.1 or later.

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-w5hq-g745-h8pq

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 440758

Version: Revision 1.39

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 4/23/2026

Updated: 6/30/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.69

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.1

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-41907

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.7

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:P/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.3

Threat Score: 8.9

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:P

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/22/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/22/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-41907