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SCA: security update for simplejson (GHSA-9772-cwx9-r4cj)

medium Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 413099

Description

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

 - Array index error in the scanstring function in the _json module in Python 2.7 through 3.5 and simplejson
 before 2.6.1 allows context-dependent attackers to read arbitrary process memory via a negative index
 value in the idx argument to the raw_decode function. (CVE-2014-4616)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-9772-cwx9-r4cj

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 413099

Version: Revision 1.4

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: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2014-4616

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.9

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/14/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/20/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-4616

BID: 68119

cwe: CWE-129