SCA: security update for rsa (GHSA-537h-rv9q-vvph)

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 410525

Description

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

- Python-RSA before 4.1 ignores leading '\0' bytes during decryption of ciphertext. This could conceivably
have a security-relevant impact, e.g., by helping an attacker to infer that an application uses Python-
RSA, or if the length of accepted ciphertext affects application behavior (such as by causing excessive
memory allocation). (CVE-2020-13757)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-537h-rv9q-vvph

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 410525

Version: Revision 1.4

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 1/23/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5

Percentile: 94.27

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-13757

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:H/I:N/A:N

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/24/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/1/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-13757

cwe: CWE-327