SCA: security update for filelock (GHSA-9c4x-gm8v-wgc4)

medium Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 477784

Description

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

- filelock is a platform-independent file lock for Python. From 3.30.0 until 4.2.1, StrictSoftFileLock
versions from 3.30.0 and SoftReadWriteLock versions from 4.0.0 can adopt a protocol directory created
first by another local user in a shared parent directory, allowing that user to alter protocol state and
admit concurrent holders. This issue is fixed in version 4.2.1. (CVE-2026-112911)

Solution

Update the filelock library and its related packages to version 4.2.1 or later.

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-9c4x-gm8v-wgc4

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 477784

Version: Revision 1.1

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 10/29/2026

Updated: 10/29/2026

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.3

Percentile: 53.52

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 4.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-112911

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.3

Temporal Score: 5.7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/28/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/20/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-112911

cwe: CWE-283