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SCA: security update for orjson (GHSA-hx9q-6w63-j58v)

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 438755

Description

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

 - The orjson.dumps function in orjson thru 3.11.4 does not limit recursion for deeply nested JSON documents.
 (CVE-2025-67221)

Solution

Update the orjson library and its related packages to version 3.11.6 or later.

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-hx9q-6w63-j58v

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 438755

Version: Revision 1.5

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 3/13/2026

Updated: 7/2/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5

Percentile: 94.39

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:N/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-67221

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:N/A:H

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:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/22/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/22/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-67221

cwe: CWE-770