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SCA: security update for github.com/Masterminds/goutils (GHSA-xg2h-wx96-xgxr)

critical Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 420472

Description

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

 - Randomly-generated alphanumeric strings contain significantly less entropy than expected. The
 RandomAlphaNumeric and CryptoRandomAlphaNumeric functions always return strings containing at least one
 digit from 0 to 9. This significantly reduces the amount of entropy in short strings generated by these
 functions. (CVE-2021-4238)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-xg2h-wx96-xgxr

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 420472

Version: Revision 1.6

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 1/23/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.3

Percentile: 53.06

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Low

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9.4

Temporal Score: 7.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-4238

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.1

Temporal Score: 8.2

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/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: 5/21/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/21/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-4238

cwe: CWE-331