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SCA: security update for parlai (GHSA-m87f-9fvv-2mgg)

medium Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 416833

Description

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

 - parlai is a framework for training and evaluating AI models on a variety of openly available dialogue
 datasets. In affected versions the package is vulnerable to YAML deserialization attack caused by unsafe
 loading which leads to Arbitary code execution. This security bug is patched by avoiding unsafe loader
 users should update to version above v1.1.0. If upgrading is not possible then users can change the Loader
 used to SafeLoader as a workaround. See commit 507d066ef432ea27d3e201da08009872a2f37725 for details.
 (CVE-2021-39207)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-m87f-9fvv-2mgg

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 416833

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: Medium

Score: 4.9

Percentile: 57.15

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 4.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-39207

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 7.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/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: Medium

Base Score: 5.6

Threat Score: 1.4

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/13/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/10/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-39207

cwe: CWE-502