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SCA: security update for portage (GHSA-8823-xphr-qw9v)

medium Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 434801

Description

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

 - The urlopen function in pym/portage/util/_urlopen.py in Gentoo Portage 2.1.12, when using HTTPS, does not
 verify X.509 certificates from SSL servers, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof servers and
 modify binary package lists via a crafted certificate. (CVE-2013-2100)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-8823-xphr-qw9v

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 434801

Version: Revision 1.2

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 8/20/2025

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: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9.3

Temporal Score: 7.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2013-2100

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.9

Temporal Score: 5.3

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/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: 5/15/2013

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2013-2100

BID: 59878