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SCA: security update for alerta-server (GHSA-8prr-286p-4w7j)

medium Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 439556

Description

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

 - Alerta is a monitoring tool. Prior to version 9.1.0, the Query string search API (q=) was vulnerable to
 SQL injection via the Postgres query parser, which built WHERE clauses by interpolating user-supplied
 search terms directly into SQL strings via f-strings. This issue has been patched in version 9.1.0.
 (CVE-2026-34400)

Solution

Update the alerta-server library and its related packages to version 9.1.0 or later.

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-8prr-286p-4w7j

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 439556

Version: Revision 1.6

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 4/1/2026

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: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-34400

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

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

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.9

Threat Score: 2.7

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U

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 Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/31/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/31/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-34400