Golang: stdlib: security update to 1.19.9stdlib: security update to 1.20.4

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 428506

Description

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

- Templates containing actions in unquoted HTML attributes (e.g. "attr={{.}}") executed with empty input can
result in output with unexpected results when parsed due to HTML normalization rules. This may allow
injection of arbitrary attributes into tags. (CVE-2023-29400)

See Also

https://pkg.go.dev/vuln/GO-2023-1753

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 428506

Version: Revision 1.2

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: 2.8

Percentile: 22.22

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-29400

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.3

Temporal Score: 6.4

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

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/5/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/4/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-29400