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SCA: security update for confidant (GHSA-rxq8-q85f-m866)

medium Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 418997

Description

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

 - Confidant is a open source secret management service that provides user-friendly storage and access to
 secrets. The following endpoints are subject to a cross site scripting vulnerability: GET /v1/credentials,
 GET /v1/credentials/, GET /v1/archive/credentials/, GET /v1/archive/credentials, POST /v1/credentials, PUT
 /v1/credentials/, PUT /v1/credentials//<to_revision>, GET /v1/services, GET /v1/services/, GET
 /v1/archive/services/, GET /v1/archive/services, PUT /v1/services/, PUT /v1/services//<to_revision>. The
 attacker needs to be authenticated and have privileges to create new credentials, but could use this to
 show information and run scripts to other users into the same Confidant instance. This issue has been
 patched in version 6.6.2. All users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this
 vulnerability. (CVE-2024-45793)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-rxq8-q85f-m866

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 418997

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: 2.3

Percentile: 9.07

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.1

Temporal Score: 3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-45793

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.8

Temporal Score: 4.2

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

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.1

Threat Score: 1.2

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/20/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/20/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-45793

cwe: CWE-79