Golang: stdlib: security update to 1.6.4stdlib: security update to 1.7.4

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 428582

Description

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

- The net/http package's Request.ParseMultipartForm method starts writing to temporary files once the
request body size surpasses the given "maxMemory" limit. It was possible for an attacker to generate a
multipart request crafted such that the server ran out of file descriptors. (CVE-2017-1000098)

See Also

https://pkg.go.dev/vuln/GO-2021-0172

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 428582

Version: Revision 1.1

Type: Local

Family: Golang

Published: 7/21/2025

Updated: 7/21/2025

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-1000098

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: 2/15/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/1/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-1000098