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SCA: security update for github.com/apache/trafficcontrol (GHSA-gw97-f6h8-gm94)

medium Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 415337

Description

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

 - An authenticated Apache Traffic Control Traffic Ops user with Portal-level privileges can send a request
 with a specially-crafted email subject to the /deliveryservices/request Traffic Ops endpoint to send an
 email, from the Traffic Ops server, with an arbitrary body to an arbitrary email address. Apache Traffic
 Control 5.1.x users should upgrade to 5.1.3 or 6.0.0. 4.1.x users should upgrade to 5.1.3.
 (CVE-2021-42009)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-gw97-f6h8-gm94

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 415337

Version: Revision 1.7

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: 1.2

Percentile: 0.01

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4

Temporal Score: 3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-42009

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/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: 10/13/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/12/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-42009

cwe: CWE-20