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SCA: security update for pyxdg (GHSA-7372-q459-jxhr)

medium Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 431827

Description

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

 - Race condition in the xdg.BaseDirectory.get_runtime_dir function in python-xdg 0.25 allows local users to
 overwrite arbitrary files by pre-creating /tmp/pyxdg-runtime-dir-fallback-victim to point to a victim-
 owned location, then replacing it with a symlink to an attacker-controlled location once the
 get_runtime_dir function is called. (CVE-2014-1624)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-7372-q459-jxhr

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 431827

Version: Revision 1.4

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 8/7/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 2.1

Percentile: 6.91

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Low

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 3.3

Temporal Score: 2.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2014-1624

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.4

Temporal Score: 3.9

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

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/17/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/21/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-1624

BID: 65042

cwe: CWE-59