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SCA: security update for go.etcd.io/etcd/client/v3 (GHSA-4993-m7g5-r9hh)

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 433547

Description

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

 - etcd before versions 3.3.23 and 3.4.10 does not perform any password length validation, which allows for
 very short passwords, such as those with a length of one. This may allow an attacker to guess or brute-
 force users' passwords with little computational effort. (CVE-2020-15115)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-4993-m7g5-r9hh

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 433547

Version: Revision 1.2

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 8/19/2025

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: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-15115

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/6/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/6/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-15115

cwe: CWE-521