Golang: stdlib: security update to 1.18.9stdlib: security update to 1.19.4

medium Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 428540

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://pkg.go.dev/vuln/GO-2022-1144

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 428540

Version: Revision 1.9

Type: Local

Family: Golang

Published: 7/21/2025

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

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