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SCA: security update for wagtail (GHSA-jmp3-39vp-fwg8)

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 416465

Description

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

 - Wagtail is an open source content management system built on Django. A bug in Wagtail's
 `parse_query_string` would result in it taking a long time to process suitably crafted inputs. When used
 to parse sufficiently long strings of characters without a space, `parse_query_string` would take an
 unexpectedly large amount of time to process, resulting in a denial of service. In an initial Wagtail
 installation, the vulnerability can be exploited by any Wagtail admin user. It cannot be exploited by end
 users. If your Wagtail site has a custom search implementation which uses `parse_query_string`, it may be
 exploitable by other users (e.g. unauthenticated users). Patched versions have been released as Wagtail
 5.2.6, 6.0.6 and 6.1.3. (CVE-2024-39317)

Solution

Update the wagtail library and its related packages to version 5.2.6 or later.

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-jmp3-39vp-fwg8

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 416465

Version: Revision 1.12

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: 23.66

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.1

Temporal Score: 4.5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-39317

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.9

Temporal Score: 4.3

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/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: 7/11/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/11/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-39317