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SCA: security update for com.mchange:c3p0 (GHSA-w6w4-rjh9-9r58)

medium Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 445221

Description

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

 - c3p0 is a JDBC Connection pooling library. In versions prior to 0.14.0, c3p0 in combination with other
 libraries, can compose to a "sink" for deserialization gadgets. The JDBC spec's DataSource.getConnection()
 and ConnectionPoolDataSource.getPooledConnection() match the getXXX() form, so JavaBean libraries treat
 them as "properties" assumed safe while they actually call into JDBC drivers. Attackers can thus craft
 malicious DataSource objects whose property lookups invoke vulnerable drivers, then smuggle them in
 serialized form to where an application deserializes and auto-resolves bean properties — triggering the
 attack. This requires a susceptible DataSource/ConnectionPoolDataSource and JDBC driver on the CLASSPATH,
 plus a carrier that auto-looks-up JavaBean properties on = deserialization, most commonly a collection
 paired with an Apache commons-beanutils Comparator that sorts by bean properties. c3p0 supplied that
 susceptible DataSource/ConnectionPoolDataSource, which was an essential component of the trigger. This
 issue has been fixed in version 0.14.0. (CVE-2026-55223)

Solution

Update the com.mchange:c3p0 library and its related packages to version 0.14.0 or later.

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-w6w4-rjh9-9r58

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 445221

Version: Revision 1.1

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 7/24/2026

Updated: 7/24/2026

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.9

Percentile: 58.03

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-55223

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: 6.3

Threat Score: 1.7

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/23/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/30/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-55223

cwe: CWE-502