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SCA: security update for dnspython (GHSA-45c3-73f7-pv4m)

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 477604

Description

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

 - dnspython is a DNS toolkit for Python. Prior to 2.9.0, dns.name.from_wire_parser follows attacker-
 controlled DNS compression pointer chains without a hop limit. A malicious DNS wire-format message can
 force excessive pointer traversal during name decompression, causing high CPU use, application
 degradation, or denial of service in applications that process untrusted DNS messages. This issue is fixed
 in version 2.9.0. (CVE-2026-114605)

Solution

Update the dnspython library and its related packages to version 2.9.0 or later.

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-45c3-73f7-pv4m

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 477604

Version: Revision 1.1

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 10/27/2026

Updated: 10/27/2026

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.71

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 5.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-114605

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/27/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/22/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-114605

cwe: CWE-674