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SCA: security update for keras (GHSA-mgx6-5cf9-rr43)

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 441301

Description

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

 - Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in the HDF5 weight loading component in Google Keras
 3.0.0 through 3.13.0 on all platforms allows a remote attacker to cause a Denial of Service (DoS) through
 memory exhaustion and a crash of the Python interpreter via a crafted .keras archive containing a valid
 model.weights.h5 file whose dataset declares an extremely large shape. (CVE-2026-0897)

Solution

Update the keras library and its related packages to version 3.12.1 or later.

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-mgx6-5cf9-rr43

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 441301

Version: Revision 1.4

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 5/7/2026

Updated: 7/2/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.7

Percentile: 96.44

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.1

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-0897

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:N/A:H

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.1

Threat Score: 5.7

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:P

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/6/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/15/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-0897

cwe: CWE-770