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SCA: security update for github.com/nats-io/nats-server/v2 (GHSA-fr2g-9hjm-wr23)

medium Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 414662

Description

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

 - NATS nats-server before 2.9.23 and 2.10.x before 2.10.2 has an authentication bypass. An implicit $G user
 in an authorization block can sometimes be used for unauthenticated access, even when the intention of the
 configuration was for each user to have an account. The earliest affected version is 2.2.0.
 (CVE-2023-47090)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-fr2g-9hjm-wr23

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 414662

Version: Revision 1.6

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 1/23/2025

Updated: 6/1/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.51

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-47090

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/19/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/19/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-47090

cwe: CWE-305