Description
Programs which compile regular expressions from untrusted sources may be vulnerable to memory exhaustion or denial of service. The parsed regexp representation is linear in the size of the input, but in some cases the constant factor can be as high as 40,000, making relatively small regexps consume much larger amounts of memory. After fix, each regexp being parsed is limited to a 256 MB memory footprint. Regular expressions whose representation would use more space than that are rejected. Normal use of regular expressions is unaffected.
References (5)
Core 5
Core References
Patch
https://go.dev/cl/439356
Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
https://go.dev/issue/55949
Mailing List, Release Notes
https://groups.google.com/g/golang-announce/c/xtuG5faxtaU
Vendor Advisory
https://pkg.go.dev/vuln/GO-2022-1039
Third Party Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202311-09
Scores
CVSS v3
7.5
EPSS
0.0002
EPSS Percentile
4.2%
Attack Vector
NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Details
Status
published
Products (1)
golang/go
< 1.18.7
Published
Oct 14, 2022
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026