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SCA: security update for secure-compare (GHSA-h9x2-5rm7-x4gm)

medium Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 423440

Description

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

 - secure-compare 3.0.0 and below do not actually compare two strings properly. compare was actually
 comparing the first argument with itself, meaning the check passed for any two strings of the same length.
 (CVE-2015-9238)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-h9x2-5rm7-x4gm

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 423440

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: 1.2

Percentile: 0.01

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2015-9238

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Temporal Score: 4.6

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/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: 6/3/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/24/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-9238

cwe: CWE-697