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SCA: security update for simplesamlphp/simplesamlphp (GHSA-v882-949x-6v28)

medium Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 434382

Description

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

 - The (1) Htpasswd authentication source in the authcrypt module and (2) SimpleSAML_Session class in
 SimpleSAMLphp 1.14.11 and earlier allow remote attackers to conduct timing side-channel attacks by
 leveraging use of the standard comparison operator to compare secret material against user input.
 (CVE-2017-12872)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-v882-949x-6v28

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 434382

Version: Revision 1.3

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: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.18

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.2

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-12872

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.9

Temporal Score: 5.2

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

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/14/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/1/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-12872

cwe: CWE-200