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

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 428586

Description

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

- Go before 1.15.13 and 1.16.x before 1.16.5 has functions for DNS lookups that do not validate replies from
DNS servers, and thus a return value may contain an unsafe injection (e.g., XSS) that does not conform to
the RFC1035 format. (CVE-2021-33195)

See Also

https://pkg.go.dev/vuln/GO-2021-0239

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 428586

Version: Revision 1.1

Type: Local

Family: Golang

Published: 7/21/2025

Updated: 7/21/2025

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 2.8

Percentile: 22.22

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-33195

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.3

Temporal Score: 6.6

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

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-2021-33195