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SCA: security update for ray (GHSA-hhrp-gw25-jr43)

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 445291

Description

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

 - Ray prior to 2.56.0 contains an unsafe deserialization vulnerability in the WebDataset reader that allows
 attackers to achieve remote code execution by supplying a malicious tar archive to the read_webdataset()
 function. The _default_decoder() function in webdataset_datasource.py unconditionally calls pickle.loads()
 on tar entries with .pkl/.pickle extensions and torch.load() with weights_only=False on .pt/.pth entries,
 executing arbitrary code inside Ray remote workers on every worker that processes the malicious archive.
 (CVE-2026-57516)

Solution

Update the ray library and its related packages to version 2.56.0 or later.

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-hhrp-gw25-jr43

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 445291

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: 58.07

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-57516

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 7.9

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

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.6

Threat Score: 7.3

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:P

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/24/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/1/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-57516