SCA: security update for github.com/mastercactapus/proxyprotocol (GHSA-85c5-ccm8-vr96)

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 433085

Description

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

- headerv2.go in mastercactapus proxyprotocol before 0.0.2, as used in the mastercactapus caddy-
proxyprotocol plugin through 0.0.2 for Caddy, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service
(webserver panic and daemon crash) via a crafted HAProxy PROXY v2 request with truncated
source/destination address data. (CVE-2019-14243)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-85c5-ccm8-vr96

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 433085

Version: Revision 1.2

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 8/12/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.18

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-14243

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.7

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:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/24/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/23/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-14243

cwe: CWE-20