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SCA: security update for golang.org/x/text (GHSA-5rcv-m4m3-hfh7)

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 411007

Description

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

 - The x/text package before 0.3.3 for Go has a vulnerability in encoding/unicode that could lead to the
 UTF-16 decoder entering an infinite loop, causing the program to crash or run out of memory. An attacker
 could provide a single byte to a UTF16 decoder instantiated with UseBOM or ExpectBOM to trigger an
 infinite loop if the String function on the Decoder is called, or the Decoder is passed to
 golang.org/x/text/transform.String. (CVE-2020-14040)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-5rcv-m4m3-hfh7

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 411007

Version: Revision 1.5

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 1/23/2025

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:N/I:N/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-14040

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:N/I:N/A:H

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/18/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/17/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-14040