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SCA: security update for marshmallow (GHSA-428g-f7cq-pgp5)

medium Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 436478

Description

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

 - Marshmallow is a lightweight library for converting complex objects to and from simple Python datatypes.
 In versions from 3.0.0rc1 to before 3.26.2 and from 4.0.0 to before 4.1.2, Schema.load(data, many=True) is
 vulnerable to denial of service attacks. A moderately sized request can consume a disproportionate amount
 of CPU time. This issue has been patched in version 3.26.2 and 4.1.2. (CVE-2025-68480)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-428g-f7cq-pgp5

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 436478

Version: Revision 1.8

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 12/23/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 1.2

Percentile: 0.01

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-68480

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Temporal Score: 4.6

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

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/22/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/22/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-68480

cwe: CWE-405