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SCA: security update for pywin32 (GHSA-hwfp-hg2m-9vr2)

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 415987

Description

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

 - An integer overflow exists in pywin32 prior to version b301 when adding an access control entry (ACE) to
 an access control list (ACL) that would cause the size to be greater than 65535 bytes. An attacker who
 successfully exploited this vulnerability could crash the vulnerable process. (CVE-2021-32559)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-hwfp-hg2m-9vr2

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 415987

Version: Revision 1.6

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: 23.51

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4

Temporal Score: 3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-32559

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:N/I:N/A:H

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.1

Threat Score: 4.9

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/9/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/6/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-32559

cwe: CWE-190