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SCA: security update for poetry (GHSA-73h3-mf4w-8647)

low Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 440721

Description

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

 - Poetry is a dependency manager for Python. Prior to 2.3.4, the extractall() function in
 src/poetry/utils/helpers.py:410-426 extracts sdist tarballs without path traversal protection on Python
 versions where tarfile.data_filter is unavailable. Considering only Python versions which are still
 supported by Poetry, these are 3.10.0 - 3.10.12 and 3.11.0 - 3.11.4. This vulnerability is fixed in 2.3.4.
 (CVE-2026-41140)

Solution

Update the poetry library and its related packages to version 2.3.4 or later.

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-73h3-mf4w-8647

Plugin Details

Severity: Low

ID: 440721

Version: Revision 1.10

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 4/22/2026

Updated: 7/15/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.8

Percentile: 57.81

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Low

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-41140

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.7

Temporal Score: 7.6

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

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2.3

Threat Score: 0.6

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/22/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/22/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-41140

cwe: CWE-22