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SCA: security update for requests-hardened (GHSA-vh75-fwv3-pqrh)

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 441242

Description

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

 - requests-hardened is a library that overrides the default behaviors of the requests library, and adds new
 security features. Prior to , the SSRF protection in requests-hardened fails to block IP addresses within
 the RFC 6598 Shared Address Space (100.64.0.0/10). An attacker who can supply arbitrary URLs to requests-
 hardened could exploit this gap to access internal services hosted within 100.64.0.0/10. This is for
 example relevant in environments such as AWS EKS where 100.64.0.0/10 is commonly used as the default pod
 CIDR. The impact is environment-dependent, deployments that utilize the affected CIDR range for internal
 networking are exposed to SSRF bypass, while others may not be affected. This vulnerability is fixed in .
 (CVE-2026-42175)

Solution

Update the requests-hardened library and its related packages to version 1.2.1 or later.

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-vh75-fwv3-pqrh

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 441242

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: 3.5

Percentile: 52.03

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.1

Temporal Score: 4.5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-42175

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.7

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

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

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-2026-42175

cwe: CWE-918