CVE-2026-33818 (GCVE-0-2026-33818)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-08-13 21:58 – Updated: 2026-10-01 20:48
VLAI
Title
Enforce maximum recursion depth in encoding/asn1
Summary
Enforce a recursion limit in Unmarshal to prevent stack exhaustion when parsing deeply-nested, recursive structures.
Severity
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: yes Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2026-08-14 15:11 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-400 - Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Go standard library encoding/asn1 Affected: 0 , < 1.25.13 (semver)
Affected: 1.26.0-0 , < 1.26.6 (semver)
Affected: 1.27.0-0 , < 1.27.0-rc.3 (semver)
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Credits
Marwan Atia (marwansamir688@gmail.com)
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