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SCA: security update for tweepy (GHSA-pwx5-xg7g-wpc5)

medium Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 434827

Description

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

 - Tweepy does not verify that the server hostname matches a domain name in the subject's Common Name (CN) or
 subjectAltName field of the X.509 certificate, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof SSL
 servers via an arbitrary valid certificate, related to use of the Python httplib library. (CVE-2012-5825)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-pwx5-xg7g-wpc5

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 434827

Version: Revision 1.3

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: Medium

Score: 6.3

Percentile: 96.37

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.8

Temporal Score: 4.5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2012-5825

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:L/A:N

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.9

Threat Score: 5.5

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:P

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/17/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/4/2012

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-5825

BID: 56410

cwe: CWE-20