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SCA: security update for github.com/russellhaering/gosaml2 (GHSA-xhqq-x44f-9fgg)

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 432022

Description

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

 - The encoding/xml package in Go (all versions) does not correctly preserve the semantics of attribute
 namespace prefixes during tokenization round-trips, which allows an attacker to craft inputs that behave
 in conflicting ways during different stages of processing in affected downstream applications.
 (CVE-2020-29509)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-xhqq-x44f-9fgg

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 432022

Version: Revision 1.4

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: 2.8

Percentile: 22.22

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Critical

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-29509

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.6

Temporal Score: 4.9

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/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: 2/11/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/14/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-29509

cwe: CWE-115