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SCA: security update for github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum (GHSA-69v6-xc2j-r2jf)

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 431900

Description

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

 - Go Ethereum, or "Geth", is the official Golang implementation of the Ethereum protocol. This is a
 Consensus vulnerability in Geth before version 1.9.17 which can be used to cause a chain-split where
 vulnerable nodes reject the canonical chain. Geth's pre-compiled dataCopy (at 0x00...04) contract did a
 shallow copy on invocation. An attacker could deploy a contract that writes X to an EVM memory region R,
 then calls 0x00..04 with R as an argument, then overwrites R to Y, and finally invokes the RETURNDATACOPY
 opcode. When this contract is invoked, a consensus-compliant node would push X on the EVM stack, whereas
 Geth would push Y. This is fixed in version 1.9.17. (CVE-2020-26241)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-69v6-xc2j-r2jf

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 431900

Version: Revision 1.2

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 8/7/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.5

Percentile: 51.63

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 4.1

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-26241

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.1

Temporal Score: 6.2

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/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: 6/29/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/25/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-26241

cwe: CWE-682