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SCA: security update for proot-distro (GHSA-9xq3-3fqg-4vg7)

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 445451

Description

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

 - proot-distro is a utility for managing proot containers. Prior to version 5.1.5, proot-distro install
 extracted plain tarball root filesystems through _extract_plain_tar() in proot_distro/commands/install.py
 and Docker layers through _apply_layer() in proot_distro/helpers/docker.py without validating archive-
 controlled symlink targets in member.linkname, allowing a malicious archive to plant an absolute host-path
 symlink and write files through it onto the host filesystem. This issue is fixed in version 5.1.5.
 (CVE-2026-54574)

Solution

Update the proot-distro library and its related packages to version 5.1.5 or later.

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-9xq3-3fqg-4vg7

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 445451

Version: Revision 1.2

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 7/29/2026

Updated: 7/30/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.8

Percentile: 57.84

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.6

Temporal Score: 4.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-54574

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.2

Temporal Score: 7.1

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

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/29/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/29/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-54574

cwe: CWE-61