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SCA: security update for privacyIDEA (GHSA-7qqv-r2q4-jxhm)

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 422504

Description

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

 - privacyIDEA version 2.23.1 and earlier contains a Improper Input Validation vulnerability in token
 validation api that can result in Denial-of-Service. This attack appear to be exploitable via http request
 with user=<space>&pass= to /validate/check url. This vulnerability appears to have been fixed in 2.23.2.
 (CVE-2018-1000809)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-7qqv-r2q4-jxhm

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 422504

Version: Revision 1.3

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: 23.18

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-1000809

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.7

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

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.7

Threat Score: 7.7

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:P

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/14/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/8/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-1000809

cwe: CWE-20