Previously, resolving relative paths containing parent directory ('..') segments performed string conversions and buffer rewrites on each step, resulting in quadratic time complexity and high memory allocation overhead. Now, path resolution operates on a byte buffer using index-based backtracking for '..' segments, eliminating the quadratic time complexity and significantly reducing memory allocations.

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

  - Previously, resolving relative paths containing parent directory ('..') segments performed string
    conversions and buffer rewrites on each step, resulting in quadratic time complexity and high memory
    allocation overhead. Now, path resolution operates on a byte buffer using index-based backtracking for
    '..' segments, eliminating the quadratic time complexity and significantly reducing memory allocations.
    (CVE-2026-56860)

The version of Golang running on the remote host is 1.25.x prior to 1.25.13, or 1.26.x prior to 1.26.6. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities in the standard library and the toolchain, as referenced in the golang-announce advisory.

  - The ToASCII and ToUnicode functions incorrectly accepted Punycode-encoded labels that decode to an     ASCII-only label. This can lead to privilege escalation in programs using the idna package.
    (CVE-2026-39821)

  - Parsing an invalid SVCB or HTTPS RR can panic when the size of a parameter value overflows the     message buffer in golang.org/x/net/dns/dnsmessage. (CVE-2026-46600)

  - When a server is configured to support unencrypted HTTP/2, it reads bytes from each new connection     to check for the HTTP/2 client preface. Previously this was done with no timeout. ReadHeaderTimeout     is now applied for this check. (CVE-2026-56853)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - Previously, resolving relative paths containing parent directory ('..') segments performed string     conversions and buffer rewrites on each step, resulting in quadratic time complexity and high memory     allocation overhead. Now, path resolution operates on a byte buffer using index-based backtracking for     '..' segments, eliminating the quadratic time complexity and significantly reducing memory allocations.
    (CVE-2026-56860)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Type	Severity
445959	Golang: stdlib: security update to 1.25.13stdlib: security update to 1.26.6stdlib: security update to 1.27.0-rc.3	Tenable Cloud Security	Golang	Local	high
445959	Golang: stdlib: security update to 1.25.13stdlib: security update to 1.26.6stdlib: security update to 1.27.0-rc.3	Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security	Golang	Local	high
335411	Golang 1.25.x < 1.25.13 / 1.26.x < 1.26.6 Multiple Vulnerabilities	Nessus	Misc.	Local	critical
335367	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2026-56860	Nessus	Misc.	Local	medium

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CVE-2026-56860

medium

Tenable Plugins

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critical

medium