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SCA: security update for golang.org/x/crypto/ssh/agent (GHSA-9m57-25v3-79x9)

medium Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 443980

Description

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

 - For certain crafted inputs, a 'ed25519.PrivateKey' was created by casting malformed wire bytes, leading to
 a panic when used. (CVE-2026-46598)

Solution

Update the golang.org/x/crypto/ssh/agent library and its related packages to version 0.52.0 or later.

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-9m57-25v3-79x9

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 443980

Version: Revision 1.2

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 6/26/2026

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

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 5.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-46598

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: 6/25/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/12/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-46598

cwe: CWE-129