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SCA: security update for mlflow (GHSA-4x5p-f36r-mxxr)

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 437451

Description

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

 - In mlflow version 2.20.3, the temporary directory used for creating Python virtual environments is
 assigned insecure world-writable permissions (0o777). This vulnerability allows an attacker with write
 access to the `/tmp` directory to exploit a race condition and overwrite `.py` files in the virtual
 environment, leading to arbitrary code execution. The issue is resolved in version 3.4.0. (CVE-2025-10279)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-4x5p-f36r-mxxr

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 437451

Version: Revision 1.11

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 2/3/2026

Updated: 7/2/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.9

Percentile: 57.88

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6

Temporal Score: 4.7

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:H/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-10279

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7

Temporal Score: 6.3

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

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/2/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/2/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-10279

cwe: CWE-379