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SCA: security update for setuptools (GHSA-27x4-j476-jp5f)

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 433721

Description

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

 - easy_install in setuptools before 0.7 uses HTTP to retrieve packages from the PyPI repository, and does
 not perform integrity checks on package contents, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to execute
 arbitrary code via a crafted response to the default use of the product. (CVE-2013-1633)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-27x4-j476-jp5f

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 433721

Version: Revision 1.4

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 8/19/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5

Percentile: 95.11

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2013-1633

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.3

Temporal Score: 7.2

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

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: 8/6/2013

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2013-1633

BID: 61827

cwe: CWE-319