Golang: stdlib: security update to 1.20.11stdlib: security update to 1.21.4

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 428485

Description

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

- On Windows, The IsLocal function does not correctly detect reserved device names in some cases. Reserved
names followed by spaces, such as "COM1 ", and reserved names "COM" and "LPT" followed by superscript 1,
2, or 3, are incorrectly reported as local. With fix, IsLocal now correctly reports these names as non-
local. (CVE-2023-45284)

See Also

https://pkg.go.dev/vuln/GO-2023-2186

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 428485

Version: Revision 1.4

Type: Local

Family: Golang

Published: 7/21/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 1.2

Percentile: 0.01

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-45284

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Temporal Score: 4.6

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

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/8/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/8/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-45284