SCA: security update for superset (GHSA-vxp9-wv2f-wqmw)

critical Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 423497

Description

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

- Versions of Superset prior to 0.23 used an unsafe load method from the pickle library to deserialize data
leading to possible remote code execution. Note Superset 0.23 was released prior to any Superset release
under the Apache Software Foundation. (CVE-2018-8021)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-vxp9-wv2f-wqmw

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 423497

Version: Revision 1.3

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: Medium

Score: 6.9

Percentile: 97.35

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Critical

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-8021

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.8

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

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.3

Threat Score: 8.1

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:P

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/9/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/17/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-8021

BID: 106066

cwe: CWE-502