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Golang: stdlib: security update to 1.8.4stdlib: security update to 1.9.1
medium Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 428561
Description
There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:- An unintended cleartext issue exists in Go before 1.8.4 and 1.9.x before 1.9.1. RFC 4954 requires that,
during SMTP, the PLAIN auth scheme must only be used on network connections secured with TLS. The original
implementation of smtp.PlainAuth in Go 1.0 enforced this requirement, and it was documented to do so. In
2013, upstream issue #5184, this was changed so that the server may decide whether PLAIN is acceptable.
The result is that if you set up a man-in-the-middle SMTP server that doesn't advertise STARTTLS and does
advertise that PLAIN auth is OK, the smtp.PlainAuth implementation sends the username and password.
(CVE-2017-15042)
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Plugin Details
Severity: Medium
ID: 428561
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: 4.3
Temporal Score: 3.2
Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-15042
CVSS v3
Risk Factor: Medium
Base Score: 5.9
Temporal Score: 5.2
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C
Vulnerability Information
Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available
Patch Publication Date: 1/7/2022
Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/4/2017
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2017-15042
BID: 101197