Detections
Analytics

SCA: security update for configobj (GHSA-c33w-24p9-8m24)

medium Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 421719

Description

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

 - All versions of the package configobj are vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) via
 the validate function, using (.+?)\((.*)\). **Note:** This is only exploitable in the case of a developer,
 putting the offending value in a server side configuration file. (CVE-2023-26112)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-c33w-24p9-8m24

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 421719

Version: Revision 1.5

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

Percentile: 23.51

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Low

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.4

Temporal Score: 4.2

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-26112

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.9

Temporal Score: 5.3

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/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: 4/3/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/3/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-26112