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SCA: security update for fastapi (GHSA-8h2j-cgx8-6xv7)

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 412682

Description

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

 - FastAPI is a web framework for building APIs with Python 3.6+ based on standard Python type hints. FastAPI
 versions lower than 0.65.2 that used cookies for authentication in path operations that received JSON
 payloads sent by browsers were vulnerable to a Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) attack. In versions lower
 than 0.65.2, FastAPI would try to read the request payload as JSON even if the content-type header sent
 was not set to application/json or a compatible JSON media type (e.g. application/geo+json). A request
 with a content type of text/plain containing JSON data would be accepted and the JSON data would be
 extracted. Requests with content type text/plain are exempt from CORS preflights, for being considered
 Simple requests. The browser will execute them right away including cookies, and the text content could be
 a JSON string that would be parsed and accepted by the FastAPI application. This is fixed in FastAPI
 0.65.2. The request data is now parsed as JSON only if the content-type header is application/json or
 another JSON compatible media type like application/geo+json. It's best to upgrade to the latest FastAPI,
 but if updating is not possible then a middleware or a dependency that checks the content-type header and
 aborts the request if it is not application/json or another JSON compatible content type can act as a
 mitigating workaround. (CVE-2021-32677)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-8h2j-cgx8-6xv7

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 412682

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: 4.3

Percentile: 53.37

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.8

Temporal Score: 4.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-32677

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.1

Temporal Score: 7.1

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

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Threat Score: 8.8

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/10/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/9/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-32677

cwe: CWE-352