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SCA: security update for libtaxii (GHSA-836c-xg97-8p4h)

critical Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 412385

Description

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

 - TAXII libtaxii through 1.1.117, as used in EclecticIQ OpenTAXII through 0.2.0 and other products, allows
 SSRF via an initial http:// substring to the parse method, even when the no_network setting is used for
 the XML parser. NOTE: the vendor points out that the parse method "wraps the lxml library" and that this
 may be an issue to "raise ... to the lxml group. (CVE-2020-27197)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-836c-xg97-8p4h

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 412385

Version: Revision 1.6

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: Medium

Score: 4.9

Percentile: 57.15

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Critical

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-27197

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.3

Threat Score: 8.1

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:P

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/30/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/17/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-27197

cwe: CWE-918