GHSA-7cwg-2575-3546 is a medium-severity (CVSS 5.3) Improper Privilege Management vulnerability in trytond. A fix is available for trytond — see the affected versions and patch details below.
Tryton Information Disclosure Vulnerability
EPSS Exploitation Probability
EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System) is a daily probability model maintained by FIRST.org. It estimates the likelihood a CVE will be exploited in production environments within the next 30 days, derived from real-world threat intelligence signals.
How urgent is this, really
GHSA-7cwg-2575-3546 plotted by exploitation likelihood (EPSS) against impact (CVSS). The shaded corner — EPSS 50%+ and CVSS 7.0+ — is where this CVE doesn't sit, though severity or exploitability alone can still warrant action.
Where this sits among everything scored
Of 377,166 CVEs with a current EPSS score, this one falls in the < 10% band (highlighted). Real counts from FIRST.org, not a sample — log-scaled since the landscape is heavily right-skewed.
Real-World Exposure
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Description
file_open in Tryton 3.x and 4.x through 4.2.2 allows remote authenticated users with certain permissions to read arbitrary files via a "same root name but with a suffix" attack. NOTE: This vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2016-1242.
Affected Packages
| Ecosystem | Package | Vulnerable range | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🐍PyPI | trytond | ≥ 3.0.0 | No fix |
| 🐍PyPI | trytond | ≥ 3.2.0 | No fix |
| 🐍PyPI | trytond | ≥ 3.4.0 | No fix |
| 🐍PyPI | trytond | ≥ 3.6.0 | No fix |
| 🐍PyPI | trytond | ≥ 3.8.0 | No fix |
| 🐍PyPI | trytond | ≥ 4.0.0 | No fix |
Detection & mitigation playbook
Open-source dependencyDetect
Scan your dependency tree (package-lock.json, pnpm-lock.yaml, requirements.txt, go.sum, etc.) for trytond, including transitive dependencies — a direct dependency you never call can still pull in a vulnerable version.
Fix
No patched version of trytond has shipped for GHSA-7cwg-2575-3546 yet. Where your build allows, override or pin the dependency away from the vulnerable range, and apply any maintainer-recommended mitigation.
Workarounds
If you can't upgrade right away: gate or disable the affected feature, validate untrusted input at the boundary, and avoid passing attacker-controlled data into the vulnerable path. O3's runtime protection blocks exploitation in production as an interim safeguard until the upgrade lands.
How O3 protects you
O3 Security's impact-aware SCA analyses which vulnerable code paths your application actually calls, so a match like GHSA-7cwg-2575-3546 can be triaged on real exposure rather than presence alone.
Tailored to GHSA-7cwg-2575-3546. Runtime protection reduces exposure until a permanent patch is applied and verified — it complements patching, it doesn't replace it.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is GHSA-7cwg-2575-3546 in your dependencies?
O3 Security finds GHSA-7cwg-2575-3546 across PyPI dependencies, including transitive ones, and its impact-aware SCA ranks findings by whether your code actually calls the vulnerable path.