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SCA: security update for github.com/square/go-jose, gopkg.in/square/go-jose.v1 (GHSA-86r9-39j9-99wp)

critical Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 412489

Description

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

 - go-jose before 1.0.4 suffers from an invalid curve attack for the ECDH-ES algorithm. When deriving a
 shared key using ECDH-ES for an encrypted message, go-jose neglected to check that the received public key
 on a message is on the same curve as the static private key of the receiver, thus making it vulnerable to
 an invalid curve attack. (CVE-2016-9121)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-86r9-39j9-99wp

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 412489

Version: Revision 1.4

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: Medium

Score: 4.3

Percentile: 53.04

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Critical

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.4

Temporal Score: 4.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2016-9121

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.1

Temporal Score: 7.9

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/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: 6/23/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/28/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-9121

cwe: CWE-326