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SCA: security update for golang.org/x/net (GHSA-h86h-8ppg-mxmh)

medium Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 415586

Description

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

 - net/http in Go before 1.15.12 and 1.16.x before 1.16.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of
 service (panic) via a large header to ReadRequest or ReadResponse. Server, Transport, and Client can each
 be affected in some configurations. (CVE-2021-31525)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-h86h-8ppg-mxmh

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 415586

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: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.18

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2.6

Temporal Score: 1.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-31525

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.9

Temporal Score: 5.2

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/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: 5/24/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/27/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-31525

cwe: CWE-674