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SCA: security update for pymongo (GHSA-qx36-8mw2-4r3x)

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 473002

Description

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

 - The client-side field level encryption support in the MongoDB Python Driver can treat a key management
 endpoint value ending in ".sock" as a local Unix domain socket path rather than a remote host. A user with
 write access to the encryption key metadata stored in the database can cause an application using the
 driver to open connections to local sockets on the application host. Data sent over these connections is
 limited to the start of a TLS handshake, so no chosen content is transmitted. (CVE-2026-96747)

Solution

Update the pymongo library and its related packages to version 4.18.2 or later.

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-qx36-8mw2-4r3x

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 473002

Version: Revision 1.1

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 10/6/2026

Updated: 10/6/2026

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 1.2

Percentile: 0.01

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4

Temporal Score: 3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-96747

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 4.4

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

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Threat Score: 1.3

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/5/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/24/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-96747