CVE-2023-22460

HIGH

go-ipld-prime < 0.19.0 - Denial of Service via JSON Encoder Bytes Token Panic

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

go-ipld-prime is an implementation of the InterPlanetary Linked Data (IPLD) spec interfaces, a batteries-included codec implementations of IPLD for CBOR and JSON, and tooling for basic operations on IPLD objects. Encoding data which contains a Bytes kind Node will pass a Bytes token to the JSON encoder which will panic as it doesn't expect to receive Bytes tokens. Such an encode should be treated as an error, as plain JSON should not be able to encode Bytes. This only impacts uses of the `json` codec. `dag-json` is not impacted. Use of `json` as a decoder is not impacted. This issue is fixed in v0.19.0. As a workaround, one may prefer the `dag-json` codec, which has the ability to encode bytes.

References (3)

Core 3
Core References
Patch, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://github.com/ipld/go-ipld-prime/pull/472
Release Notes, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://github.com/ipld/go-ipld-prime/releases/tag/v0.19.0

Scores

CVSS v3 7.5
EPSS 0.0095
EPSS Percentile 56.7%
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-20
Status published
Products (2)
ipld/go-ipld-prime 0 - 0.19.0Go
protocol/go-ipld-prime < 0.19.0
Published Jan 04, 2023
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026