SCA: security update for golang.org/x/crypto (GHSA-x3jr-pf6g-c48f)

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 432848

Description

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

- A message-forgery issue was discovered in crypto/openpgp/clearsign/clearsign.go in supplementary Go
cryptography libraries 2019-03-25. According to the OpenPGP Message Format specification in RFC 4880
chapter 7, a cleartext signed message can contain one or more optional "Hash" Armor Headers. The "Hash"
Armor Header specifies the message digest algorithm(s) used for the signature. However, the Go clearsign
package ignores the value of this header, which allows an attacker to spoof it. Consequently, an attacker
can lead a victim to believe the signature was generated using a different message digest algorithm than
what was actually used. Moreover, since the library skips Armor Header parsing in general, an attacker can
not only embed arbitrary Armor Headers, but also prepend arbitrary text to cleartext messages without
invalidating the signatures. (CVE-2019-11841)

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 432848

Version: Revision 1.2

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 8/11/2025

Updated: 1/28/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.18

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-11841

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.9

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/24/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/22/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-11841

cwe: CWE-347

Detections

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