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SCA: security update for mod-wsgi (GHSA-7527-8855-9cf8)

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 411815

Description

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

 - A vulnerability was found in mod_wsgi. The X-Client-IP header is not removed from a request from an
 untrusted proxy, allowing an attacker to pass the X-Client-IP header to the target WSGI application
 because the condition to remove it is missing. (CVE-2022-2255)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-7527-8855-9cf8

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 411815

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: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.1

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-2255

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:N/I:H/A:N

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.7

Threat Score: 7.7

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:P

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/26/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/25/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-2255

cwe: CWE-345