Golang: stdlib: security update to 1.21.1

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 428507

Description

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

- QUIC connections do not set an upper bound on the amount of data buffered when reading post-handshake
messages, allowing a malicious QUIC connection to cause unbounded memory growth. With fix, connections now
consistently reject messages larger than 65KiB in size. (CVE-2023-39322)

See Also

https://pkg.go.dev/vuln/GO-2023-2045

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 428507

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: 3

Percentile: 23.18

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 5.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-39322

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/7/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/7/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-39322