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SCA: security update for github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go (GHSA-f5pg-7wfw-84q9)

medium Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 433671

Description

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

 - A padding oracle vulnerability exists in the AWS S3 Crypto SDK for GoLang versions prior to V2. The SDK
 allows users to encrypt files with AES-CBC without computing a Message Authentication Code (MAC), which
 then allows an attacker who has write access to the target's S3 bucket and can observe whether or not an
 endpoint with access to the key can decrypt a file, they can reconstruct the plaintext with (on average)
 128*length (plaintext) queries to the endpoint, by exploiting CBC's ability to manipulate the bytes of the
 next block and PKCS5 padding errors. It is recommended to update your SDK to V2 or later, and re-encrypt
 your files. (CVE-2020-8911)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-f5pg-7wfw-84q9

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 433671

Version: Revision 1.2

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 8/19/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.3

Percentile: 96.97

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2.1

Temporal Score: 1.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-8911

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.6

Temporal Score: 5.1

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/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: 2/11/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/11/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-8911

cwe: CWE-327