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SCA: security update for github.com/prometheus/client_golang (GHSA-cg3q-j54f-5p7p)

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 413879

Description

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

 - client_golang is the instrumentation library for Go applications in Prometheus, and the promhttp package
 in client_golang provides tooling around HTTP servers and clients. In client_golang prior to version
 1.11.1, HTTP server is susceptible to a Denial of Service through unbounded cardinality, and potential
 memory exhaustion, when handling requests with non-standard HTTP methods. In order to be affected, an
 instrumented software must use any of `promhttp.InstrumentHandler*` middleware except `RequestsInFlight`;
 not filter any specific methods (e.g GET) before middleware; pass metric with `method` label name to our
 middleware; and not have any firewall/LB/proxy that filters away requests with unknown `method`.
 client_golang version 1.11.1 contains a patch for this issue. Several workarounds are available, including
 removing the `method` label name from counter/gauge used in the InstrumentHandler; turning off affected
 promhttp handlers; adding custom middleware before promhttp handler that will sanitize the request method
 given by Go http.Request; and using a reverse proxy or web application firewall, configured to only allow
 a limited set of methods. (CVE-2022-21698)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-cg3q-j54f-5p7p

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 413879

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: High

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-2022-21698

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: 2/16/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/15/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-21698