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SCA: security update for golang.org/x/net/html (GHSA-w4gw-w5jq-g9jh)

medium Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 437718

Description

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

 - The html.Parse function in golang.org/x/net/html has quadratic parsing complexity when processing certain
 inputs, which can lead to denial of service (DoS) if an attacker provides specially crafted HTML content.
 (CVE-2025-47911)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-w4gw-w5jq-g9jh

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 437718

Version: Revision 1.3

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 2/13/2026

Updated: 4/6/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 1.2

Percentile: 0.01

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

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-2025-47911

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Temporal Score: 4.6

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/12/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/23/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-47911

cwe: CWE-407