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SCA: security update for pycsw (GHSA-hg4c-rgvm-964g)

critical Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 422299

Description

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

 - A SQL injection vulnerability in pycsw all versions before 2.0.2, 1.10.5 and 1.8.6 that leads to read and
 extract of any data from any table in the pycsw database that the database user has access to. Also on
 PostgreSQL (at least) it is possible to perform updates/inserts/deletes and database modifications to any
 table the database user has access to. (CVE-2016-8640)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-hg4c-rgvm-964g

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 422299

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: Medium

Score: 4.3

Percentile: 53.04

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Critical

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2016-8640

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.1

Temporal Score: 7.9

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

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.3

Threat Score: 8

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/15/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/14/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-8640

BID: 94302

cwe: CWE-89