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SCA: security update for filelock (GHSA-fj95-fr6c-h845)

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 477807

Description

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

 - filelock is a platform-independent file lock for Python. From 4.0.0 until 4.2.1, SoftReadWriteLock
 refreshes holder records by name, allowing another local user with rename access to the lock directory to
 replace a record with a named pipe and stall the lock, or under a permissive hard-link policy to link a
 reachable target file and cause the lock user to write through it. This issue is fixed in version 4.2.1.
 (CVE-2026-112934)

Solution

Update the filelock library and its related packages to version 4.2.1 or later.

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-fj95-fr6c-h845

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 477807

Version: Revision 1.1

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 10/29/2026

Updated: 10/29/2026

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.5

Percentile: 95.72

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.2

Temporal Score: 4.1

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-112934

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.1

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/28/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/20/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-112934

cwe: CWE-62