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SCA: security update for SOAPpy (GHSA-2gh8-gr6x-7q26)

medium Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 432753

Description

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

 - SOAPpy 0.12.5 does not properly detect recursion during entity expansion, which allows remote attackers to
 cause a denial of service (memory and CPU consumption) via a crafted SOAP request containing a large
 number of nested entity references. (CVE-2014-3243)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-2gh8-gr6x-7q26

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 432753

Version: Revision 1.3

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 8/11/2025

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: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2014-3243

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Temporal Score: 4.8

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

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/17/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/6/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-3243

BID: 67216

cwe: CWE-119