Golang: stdlib: security update to 1.17.12stdlib: security update to 1.18.4

medium Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 428548

Description

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

- Improper exposure of client IP addresses in net/http before Go 1.17.12 and Go 1.18.4 can be triggered by
calling httputil.ReverseProxy.ServeHTTP with a Request.Header map containing a nil value for the
X-Forwarded-For header, which causes ReverseProxy to set the client IP as the value of the X-Forwarded-For
header. (CVE-2022-32148)

See Also

https://pkg.go.dev/vuln/GO-2022-0520

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 428548

Version: Revision 1.2

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: 2.1

Percentile: 6.91

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.4

Temporal Score: 5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-32148

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/28/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/13/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-32148