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SCA: security update for protobuf (GHSA-8gq9-2x98-w8hf)

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 412665

Description

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

 - A parsing vulnerability for the MessageSet type in the ProtocolBuffers versions prior to and including
 3.16.1, 3.17.3, 3.18.2, 3.19.4, 3.20.1 and 3.21.5 for protobuf-cpp, and versions prior to and including
 3.16.1, 3.17.3, 3.18.2, 3.19.4, 3.20.1 and 4.21.5 for protobuf-python can lead to out of memory failures.
 A specially crafted message with multiple key-value per elements creates parsing issues, and can lead to a
 Denial of Service against services receiving unsanitized input. We recommend upgrading to versions 3.18.3,
 3.19.5, 3.20.2, 3.21.6 for protobuf-cpp and 3.18.3, 3.19.5, 3.20.2, 4.21.6 for protobuf-python. Versions
 for 3.16 and 3.17 are no longer updated. (CVE-2022-1941)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-8gq9-2x98-w8hf

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 412665

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: Medium

Score: 5

Percentile: 95.09

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-2022-1941

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: 9/23/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/22/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-1941