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SCA: security update for fonttools (GHSA-6673-4983-2vx5)

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 411234

Description

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

 - fontTools is a library for manipulating fonts, written in Python. The subsetting module has a XML External
 Entity Injection (XXE) vulnerability which allows an attacker to resolve arbitrary entities when a
 candidate font (OT-SVG fonts), which contains a SVG table, is parsed. This allows attackers to include
 arbitrary files from the filesystem fontTools is running on or make web requests from the host system.
 This vulnerability has been patched in version 4.43.0. (CVE-2023-45139)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-6673-4983-2vx5

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 411234

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: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.68

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.1

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-45139

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: 1/9/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/9/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-45139

cwe: CWE-611