SCA: security update for github.com/seaweedfs/seaweedfs (GHSA-gv5w-hfx8-8cwq)

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 447533

Description

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

- SeaweedFS is a distributed storage system. Prior to 4.24, the weed/server/filer_server_handlers.go
allowed_prefixes authorization check used strings.HasPrefix on raw path strings, so a filer JWT scoped to
/tenant1 also authorized sibling paths such as /tenant1234, /tenant1-old, and /tenant1backup, enabling
cross-tenant reads and writes with a valid scoped token. This issue is fixed in version 4.24.
(CVE-2026-72921)

Solution

Update the github.com/seaweedfs/seaweedfs library and its related packages to version 0.0.0-20260512171048-05ed5c9ae8a2 or later.

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-gv5w-hfx8-8cwq

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 447533

Version: Revision 1.1

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 9/3/2026

Updated: 9/3/2026

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.3

Percentile: 53.59

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.5

Temporal Score: 6.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-72921

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.1

Temporal Score: 7.1

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/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: 9/2/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/11/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-72921

cwe: CWE-863