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SCA: security update for gunicorn (GHSA-hc5x-x2vx-497g)

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 421209

Description

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

 - Gunicorn version 21.2.0 does not properly validate the value of the 'Transfer-Encoding' header as
 specified in the RFC standards, which leads to the default fallback method of 'Content-Length,' making it
 vulnerable to TE.CL request smuggling. This vulnerability can lead to cache poisoning, data exposure,
 session manipulation, SSRF, XSS, DoS, data integrity compromise, security bypass, information leakage, and
 business logic abuse. (CVE-2024-6827)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-hc5x-x2vx-497g

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 421209

Version: Revision 1.7

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 3/22/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.92

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 5.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-6827

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/20/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/20/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-6827

cwe: CWE-444