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SCA: security update for fastbots (GHSA-vccg-f4gp-45x9)

critical Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 419265

Description

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

 - fastbots is a library for fast bot and scraper development using selenium and the Page Object Model (POM)
 design. Prior to version 0.1.5, an attacker could modify the locators.ini locator file with python code
 that without proper validation it's executed and it could lead to rce. The vulnerability is in the
 function `def __locator__(self, locator_name: str)` in `page.py`. In order to mitigate this issue, upgrade
 to fastbots version 0.1.5 or above. (CVE-2023-48699)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-vccg-f4gp-45x9

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 419265

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: 57.58

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-48699

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.8

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:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/21/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/21/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-48699