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SCA: security update for github.com/ecies/go/v2 (GHSA-8j98-cjfr-qx3h)

medium Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 412725

Description

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

 - ecies is an Elliptic Curve Integrated Encryption Scheme for secp256k1 in Golang. If funcations
 Encapsulate(), Decapsulate() and ECDH() could be called by an attacker, they could recover any private key
 that interacts with it. This vulnerability was patched in 2.0.8. Users are advised to upgrade.
 (CVE-2023-49292)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-8j98-cjfr-qx3h

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 412725

Version: Revision 1.6

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: 2.1

Percentile: 7.51

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4

Temporal Score: 3.1

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-49292

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.8

Temporal Score: 4.3

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

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/5/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/4/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-49292

cwe: CWE-200