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SCA: security update for golang.org/x/image (GHSA-44p7-9xx4-hf2g)

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 439481

Description

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

 - A maliciously crafted TIFF file can cause image decoding to attempt to allocate up 4GiB of memory, causing
 either excessive resource consumption or an out-of-memory error. (CVE-2026-33809)

Solution

Update the golang.org/x/image library and its related packages to version 0.38.0 or later.

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-44p7-9xx4-hf2g

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 439481

Version: Revision 1.3

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 3/30/2026

Updated: 7/2/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 1.2

Percentile: 0.01

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-2026-33809

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Temporal Score: 4.6

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/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: 3/25/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/25/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-33809

cwe: CWE-770