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SCA: security update for aws-iot-device-sdk-v2, awsiotsdk, software.amazon.awssdk.iotdevicesdk:aws-iot-device-sdk (GHSA-c4rh-4376-gff4)

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 413653

Description

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

 - The AWS IoT Device SDK v2 for Java, Python, C++ and Node.js appends a user supplied Certificate Authority
 (CA) to the root CAs instead of overriding it on Unix systems. TLS handshakes will thus succeed if the
 peer can be verified either from the user-supplied CA or the system’s default trust-store. Attackers with
 access to a host’s trust stores or are able to compromise a certificate authority already in the host's
 trust store (note: the attacker must also be able to spoof DNS in this case) may be able to use this issue
 to bypass CA pinning. An attacker could then spoof the MQTT broker, and either drop traffic and/or respond
 with the attacker's data, but they would not be able to forward this data on to the MQTT broker because
 the attacker would still need the user's private keys to authenticate against the MQTT broker. The
 'aws_tls_ctx_options_override_default_trust_store_*' function within the aws-c-io submodule has been
 updated to override the default trust store. This corrects this issue. This issue affects: Amazon Web
 Services AWS IoT Device SDK v2 for Java versions prior to 1.5.0 on Linux/Unix. Amazon Web Services AWS IoT
 Device SDK v2 for Python versions prior to 1.6.1 on Linux/Unix. Amazon Web Services AWS IoT Device SDK v2
 for C++ versions prior to 1.12.7 on Linux/Unix. Amazon Web Services AWS IoT Device SDK v2 for Node.js
 versions prior to 1.5.3 on Linux/Unix. Amazon Web Services AWS-C-IO 0.10.4 on Linux/Unix. (CVE-2021-40830)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-c4rh-4376-gff4

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 413653

Version: Revision 1.8

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: 57.12

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.8

Temporal Score: 4.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-40830

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 7.7

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

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.3

Threat Score: 4.4

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/24/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/22/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-40830

cwe: CWE-295