SCA: security update for PeterO.Cbor (GHSA-6r92-cgxc-r5fg)

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 411607

Description

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

- PeterO.Cbor versions 4.0.0 through 4.5.0 are vulnerable to a denial of service vulnerability. An attacker
may trigger the denial of service condition by providing crafted data to the DecodeFromBytes or other
decoding mechanisms in PeterO.Cbor. Depending on the usage of the library, an unauthenticated and remote
attacker may be able to cause the denial of service condition. (CVE-2024-21909)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-6r92-cgxc-r5fg

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 411607

Version: Revision 1.8

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: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 5.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-21909

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/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: 1/21/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/21/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-21909

cwe: CWE-407