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SCA: security update for net-ldap (GHSA-m7p8-9w66-9frm)

medium Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 423257

Description

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

 - The Net::LDAP (aka net-ldap) gem before 0.16.0 for Ruby has Missing SSL Certificate Validation.
 (CVE-2017-17718)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-m7p8-9w66-9frm

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 423257

Version: Revision 1.5

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: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.2

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-17718

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.9

Temporal Score: 5.2

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

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/6/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/17/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-17718

cwe: CWE-295