SCA: security update for apscheduler (GHSA-9cfw-f3f9-7mm7)

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 477668

Description

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

- The JSONSerializer and CBORSerializer in APScheduler (all versions including 3.10.x and 4.0.0a5) are
vulnerable to Remote Code Execution (RCE) via Insecure Deserialization. The unmarshal_object function
allows for arbitrary class instantiation and state injection by dynamically importing modules and calling
__setstate__ on any class available in the Python environment. An attacker can exploit this by submitting
a specially crafted JSON or CBOR payload to an application using these serializers (CVE-2026-31072)

Solution

There is no known solution at this time.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 477668

Version: Revision 1.1

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 10/27/2026

Updated: 10/27/2026

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.9

Percentile: 96.92

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Critical

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-31072

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 7.7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/19/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/19/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-31072

cwe: CWE-502

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