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SCA: security update for pyxdg (GHSA-r6v3-hpxj-r8rv)
high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 423540
Description
There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:- A code injection issue was discovered in PyXDG before 0.26 via crafted Python code in a Category element
of a Menu XML document in a .menu file. XDG_CONFIG_DIRS must be set up to trigger xdg.Menu.parse parsing
within the directory containing this file. This is due to a lack of sanitization in xdg/Menu.py before an
eval call. (CVE-2019-12761)
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Plugin Details
Severity: High
ID: 423540
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: Medium
Score: 4.9
Percentile: 57.12
Vendor
Vendor Severity: High
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: Medium
Base Score: 5.1
Temporal Score: 4
Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-12761
CVSS v3
Risk Factor: High
Base Score: 7.5
Temporal Score: 6.7
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C
Vulnerability Information
Exploit Available: true
Exploit Ease: Exploits are available
Patch Publication Date: 6/7/2019
Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/6/2019
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2019-12761
cwe: CWE-94