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Golang: stdlib: security update to 1.15.9stdlib: security update to 1.16.1
high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 428559
Description
There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:- encoding/xml in Go before 1.15.9 and 1.16.x before 1.16.1 has an infinite loop if a custom TokenReader
(for xml.NewTokenDecoder) returns EOF in the middle of an element. This can occur in the Decode,
DecodeElement, or Skip method. (CVE-2021-27918)
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Plugin Details
Severity: High
ID: 428559
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: 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-2021-27918
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: 2/17/2022
Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/10/2021
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2021-27918