Golang: stdlib: security update to 1.4.3

critical Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 428585

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities referenced in the following CVEs:

- The net/http library in net/textproto/reader.go in Go before 1.4.3 does not properly parse HTTP header
keys, which allows remote attackers to conduct HTTP request smuggling attacks via a space instead of a
hyphen, as demonstrated by "Content Length" instead of "Content-Length." (CVE-2015-5739)

- The net/http library in net/http/transfer.go in Go before 1.4.3 does not properly parse HTTP headers,
which allows remote attackers to conduct HTTP request smuggling attacks via a request with two Content-
length headers. (CVE-2015-5740)

- The net/http library in net/http/transfer.go in Go before 1.4.3 does not properly parse HTTP headers,
which allows remote attackers to conduct HTTP request smuggling attacks via a request that contains
Content-Length and Transfer-Encoding header fields. (CVE-2015-5741)

See Also

https://pkg.go.dev/vuln/GO-2021-0159

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 428585

Version: Revision 1.5

Type: Local

Family: Golang

Published: 7/21/2025

Updated: 7/6/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.9

Percentile: 97.23

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-2015-5741

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/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: 1/5/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/5/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-5739, CVE-2015-5740, CVE-2015-5741

BID: 76032, 76281