CVE-2022-30635 (GCVE-0-2022-30635)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-08-09 20:16 – Updated: 2026-03-06 17:44
VLAI
Title
Stack exhaustion when decoding certain messages in encoding/gob
Summary
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.
Severity
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
Assigner
Go
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Go standard library encoding/gob Affected: 0 , < 1.17.12 (semver)
Affected: 1.18.0-0 , < 1.18.4 (semver)
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