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SCA: security update for indy-node (GHSA-wh2w-39f4-rpv2)

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 434996

Description

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

 - Hyperledger Indy Node is the server portion of a distributed ledger purpose-built for decentralized
 identity. In Hyperledger Indy before version 1.12.4, there is lack of signature verification on a specific
 transaction which enables an attacker to make certain unauthorized alterations to the ledger. Updating a
 DID with a nym transaction will be written to the ledger if neither ROLE or VERKEY are being changed,
 regardless of sender. A malicious DID with no particular role can ask an update for another DID (but
 cannot modify its verkey or role). This is bad because 1) Any DID can write a nym transaction to the
 ledger (i.e., any DID can spam the ledger with nym transactions), 2) Any DID can change any other DID's
 alias, 3) The update transaction modifies the ledger metadata associated with a DID. (CVE-2020-11093)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-wh2w-39f4-rpv2

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 434996

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: 5

Percentile: 94.66

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:N/I:P/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-11093

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:N/I:H/A:N

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.7

Threat Score: 7.7

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:P

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/30/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/24/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-11093

cwe: CWE-347