The remote Ubuntu 23.04 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-6140-1 advisory.

    It was discovered that Go did not properly manage memory under certain circumstances. An attacker could     possibly use this issue to cause a panic resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected     golang-1.19 on Ubuntu 22.10. (CVE-2022-41724, CVE-2023-24534, CVE-2023-24537)

    It was discovered that Go did not properly validate the amount of memory and disk files ReadForm can     consume. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a panic resulting in a denial of service. This     issue only affected golang-1.19 on Ubuntu 22.10. (CVE-2022-41725)

    It was discovered that Go did not properly validate backticks (`) as Javascript string delimiters, and did     not escape them as expected. An attacker could possibly use this issue to inject arbitrary Javascript code     into the Go template. This issue only affected golang-1.19 on Ubuntu 22.10. (CVE-2023-24538)

    It was discovered that Go did not properly validate the angle brackets in CSS values. An attacker could     possibly use this issue to inject arbitrary CSS code. (CVE-2023-24539)

    It was discovered that Go did not properly validate whitespace characters in Javascript, and did not     escape them as expected. An attacker could possibly use this issue to inject arbitrary Javascript code     into the Go template. (CVE-2023-24540)

    It was discovered that Go did not properly validate HTML attributes with empty input. An attacker could     possibly use this issue to inject arbitrary HTML tags into the Go template. (CVE-2023-29400)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

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Ubuntu 23.04 : Go vulnerabilities (USN-6140-1)

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Version 1.5 Aug 28, 2024, 7:43 PM CVSS metrics ("Cvssv4 score" set to 0.0) CVSSv2 severity (based on None, severity decreased from "High" to "Low") Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202408281943
Version 1.4 Dec 8, 2023, 11:43 AM IAVM reference Plugin Feed: 202312081143
Version 1.3 Oct 23, 2023, 6:27 PM Detection Exploit attributes ("Exploit available" set to "False") Plugin Feed: 202310231827
Version 1.2 Oct 13, 2023, 2:22 PM IAVM reference STIG Severity (set to "I") Plugin Feed: 202310131422
Version 1.1 Jun 6, 2023, 8:00 PM Detection Plugin Feed: 202306062000
Version 1.0 Jun 6, 2023, 12:01 PM New Plugin Feed: 202306061201