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

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 428558

Description

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

 - Uncontrolled recursion in Decoder.Skip in encoding/xml before Go 1.17.12 and Go 1.18.4 allows an attacker
 to cause a panic due to stack exhaustion via a deeply nested XML document. (CVE-2022-28131)

See Also

https://pkg.go.dev/vuln/GO-2022-0521

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 428558

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: 3

Percentile: 23.18

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-2022-28131

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: 7/20/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/13/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-28131