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SCA: security update for numpy (GHSA-5545-2q6w-2gh6)
medium Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 410578
Description
There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:- Null Pointer Dereference vulnerability exists in numpy.sort in NumPy < and 1.19 in the PyArray_DescrNew
function due to missing return-value validation, which allows attackers to conduct DoS attacks by
repetitively creating sort arrays. NOTE: While correct that validation is missing, an error can only occur
due to an exhaustion of memory. If the user can exhaust memory, they are already privileged. Further, it
should be practically impossible to construct an attack which can target the memory exhaustion to occur at
exactly this place (CVE-2021-41495)
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Plugin Details
Severity: Medium
ID: 410578
Version: Revision 1.5
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: Low
Score: 3
Percentile: 23.18
Vendor
Vendor Severity: High
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: Low
Base Score: 3.5
Temporal Score: 2.7
Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P
CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-41495
CVSS v3
Risk Factor: Medium
Base Score: 5.3
Temporal Score: 4.8
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/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: 2/8/2022
Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/17/2021
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2021-41495
cwe: CWE-476