SCA: security update for golang.org/x/net (GHSA-hgr8-6h9x-f7q9)

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 415736

Description

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

- Some HTTP/2 implementations are vulnerable to ping floods, potentially leading to a denial of service. The
attacker sends continual pings to an HTTP/2 peer, causing the peer to build an internal queue of
responses. Depending on how efficiently this data is queued, this can consume excess CPU, memory, or both.
(CVE-2019-9512)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-hgr8-6h9x-f7q9

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 415736

Version: Revision 1.11

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: 23.71

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 5.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-9512

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: 5/24/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/9/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-9512

cwe: CWE-400