Description
Uncontrolled recursion in Decoder.Decode in encoding/gob before Go 1.17.12 and Go 1.18.4 allows an attacker to cause a panic due to stack exhaustion via a message which contains deeply nested structures.
References (5)
Scores
CVSS v3
7.5
EPSS
0.0011
EPSS Percentile
29.6%
Attack Vector
NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CISA SSVC
Vulnrichment
Exploitation
none
Automatable
yes
Technical Impact
partial
Details
CWE
CWE-674
Status
published
Products (1)
golang/go
< 1.17.12
Published
Aug 10, 2022
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026