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SCA: security update for ciguard (GHSA-xw8c-rrvx-f7xq)

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 441189

Description

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

 - ciguard is a static security auditor for CI/CD pipelines. From 0.6.0 to 0.8.1, both SCA HTTP clients
 (src/ciguard/analyzer/sca/osv.py and src/ciguard/analyzer/sca/endoflife.py) call payload =
 json.loads(resp.read().decode('utf-8')) without a maximum-bytes cap. A hostile or compromised
 endoflife.date / OSV.dev (or a successful TLS MITM) could return a multi-GB response, exhausting the
 ciguard process's memory. This vulnerability is fixed in 0.8.2. (CVE-2026-44219)

Solution

Update the ciguard library and its related packages to version 0.8.2 or later.

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-xw8c-rrvx-f7xq

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 441189

Version: Revision 1.8

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 5/6/2026

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:N/I:N/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-44219

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:N/I:N/A:L

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:H/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/5/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/5/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-44219

cwe: CWE-770