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SCA: security update for sanic (GHSA-mpmf-hr8p-p49g)

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 434781

Description

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

 - Sanic before 0.5.1 allows reading arbitrary files with directory traversal, as demonstrated by the
 /static/..%2f substring. (CVE-2017-16762)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-mpmf-hr8p-p49g

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 434781

Version: Revision 1.2

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 8/20/2025

Updated: 1/28/2026

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-16762

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.7

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

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: 11/10/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-16762

cwe: CWE-22