Golang: stdlib: security update to 1.25.8stdlib: security update to 1.26.1

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 438451

Description

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

- Actions which insert URLs into the content attribute of HTML meta tags are not escaped. This can allow XSS
if the meta tag also has an http-equiv attribute with the value "refresh". A new GODEBUG setting has been
added, htmlmetacontenturlescape, which can be used to disable escaping URLs in actions in the meta content
attribute which follow "url=" by setting htmlmetacontenturlescape=0. (CVE-2026-27142)

See Also

https://pkg.go.dev/vuln/GO-2026-4603

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 438451

Version: Revision 1.9

Type: Local

Family: Golang

Published: 3/7/2026

Updated: 6/15/2026

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.2

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-27142

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.1

Temporal Score: 5.3

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/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: 3/6/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/5/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-27142