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SCA: security update for pykmip (GHSA-gfv6-cj92-g3hx)

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 423234

Description

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

 - OpenKMIP PyKMIP version All versions before 0.8.0 contains a CWE 399: Resource Management Errors (similar
 issue to CVE-2015-5262) vulnerability in PyKMIP server that can result in DOS: the server can be made
 unavailable by one or more clients opening all of the available sockets. This attack appear to be
 exploitable via A client or clients open sockets with the server and then never close them. This
 vulnerability appears to have been fixed in 0.8.0. (CVE-2018-1000872)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-gfv6-cj92-g3hx

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 423234

Version: Revision 1.4

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 3/29/2025

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: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-1000872

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/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: 7.1

Threat Score: 5.7

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:P

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/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: 12/21/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/20/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-1000872

cwe: CWE-400