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Golang: stdlib: security update to 1.15.13stdlib: security update to 1.16.5

medium Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 428584

Description

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

 - In Go before 1.15.13 and 1.16.x before 1.16.5, some configurations of ReverseProxy (from
 net/http/httputil) result in a situation where an attacker is able to drop arbitrary headers.
 (CVE-2021-33197)

See Also

https://pkg.go.dev/vuln/GO-2021-0241

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 428584

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: 1.2

Percentile: 0.01

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-33197

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Temporal Score: 4.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/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: 2/17/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/2/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-33197