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SCA: security update for golang.org/x/net, golang.org/x/net/http2 (GHSA-xrjj-mj9h-534m)

medium Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 420653

Description

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

 - An attacker can cause excessive memory growth in a Go server accepting HTTP/2 requests. HTTP/2 server
 connections contain a cache of HTTP header keys sent by the client. While the total number of entries in
 this cache is capped, an attacker sending very large keys can cause the server to allocate approximately
 64 MiB per open connection. (CVE-2022-41717)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-xrjj-mj9h-534m

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 420653

Version: Revision 1.17

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: 1.2

Percentile: 0.01

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

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-2022-41717

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Temporal Score: 4.6

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

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/8/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/6/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-41717

cwe: CWE-770