SCA: security update for ckan (GHSA-7fgc-89cx-w8j5)

medium Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 412026

Description

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

- CKAN is an open-source data management system for powering data hubs and data portals. Starting in version
2.0.0 and prior to versions 2.9.10 and 2.10.3, when submitting a POST request to the `/dataset/new`
endpoint (including either the auth cookie or the `Authorization` header) with a specially-crafted field,
an attacker can create an out-of-memory error in the hosting server. To trigger this error, the attacker
need to have permissions to create or edit datasets. This vulnerability has been patched in CKAN 2.10.3
and 2.9.10. (CVE-2023-50248)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-7fgc-89cx-w8j5

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 412026

Version: Revision 1.5

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 1/23/2025

Updated: 6/1/2026

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-50248

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/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: 12/13/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/13/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-50248

cwe: CWE-130