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SCA: security update for reportlab (GHSA-pj98-2xf6-cff5)

critical Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 417564

Description

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

 - paraparser in ReportLab before 3.5.31 allows remote code execution because start_unichar in paraparser.py
 evaluates untrusted user input in a unichar element in a crafted XML document with '<unichar code="'
 followed by arbitrary Python code, a similar issue to CVE-2019-17626. (CVE-2019-19450)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-pj98-2xf6-cff5

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 417564

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: Medium

Score: 4.9

Percentile: 57.58

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Critical

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-19450

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/20/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/20/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-19450

cwe: CWE-91