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SCA: security update for pip (GHSA-mq26-g339-26xf)

medium Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 421553

Description

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

 - When installing a package from a Mercurial VCS URL (ie "pip install hg+...") with pip prior to v23.3, the
 specified Mercurial revision could be used to inject arbitrary configuration options to the "hg clone"
 call (ie "--config"). Controlling the Mercurial configuration can modify how and which repository is
 installed. This vulnerability does not affect users who aren't installing from Mercurial. (CVE-2023-5752)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-mq26-g339-26xf

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 421553

Version: Revision 1.9

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 3/28/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.2

Percentile: 51.15

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 1.7

Temporal Score: 1.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-5752

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 3.3

Temporal Score: 2.9

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

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Threat Score: 4.3

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/25/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/24/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-5752

cwe: CWE-77