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SCA: security update for geopy (GHSA-mhvh-fq92-pfmr)

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 472258

Description

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

 - geopy is a geocoding library for Python. Prior to 2.5.0, geopy.Point and Point.from_string() can spend
 excessive CPU time due to inefficient regular-expression behavior when an application passes a long
 malformed coordinate string without the 256-character input limit used by the fix. Geocoder reverse
 methods also reach the vulnerable parsing path when called with string inputs. Repeated attacker-
 controlled requests can cause a denial of service, while the numeric Point constructor is unaffected. This
 issue is fixed in version 2.5.0. (CVE-2026-77387)

Solution

Update the geopy library and its related packages to version 2.5.0 or later.

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-mhvh-fq92-pfmr

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 472258

Version: Revision 1.1

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 10/3/2026

Updated: 10/3/2026

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 1.2

Percentile: 0.01

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2.1

Temporal Score: 1.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-77387

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4

Temporal Score: 3.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/2/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/1/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-77387