Uncontrolled Memory Consumption in Go's HTTP/2 Requests by The Go Programming Language
CVE-2021-44716

7.5HIGH

Key Information:

Vendor

Golang

Status
Go
Vendor
CVE Published:
1 January 2022

What is CVE-2021-44716?

An issue has been identified in the net/http package of Go, affecting versions prior to 1.16.12 and 1.17.x before 1.17.5. This vulnerability allows for uncontrolled memory consumption through HTTP/2 requests, specifically in the header canonicalization cache, which may lead to resource exhaustion.

References

https://groups.google.com/g/golang-announce/c/hcmEScgc00k
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20220121-0002/
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/01/msg0...
mailing-list

CVSS V3.1

Score:
7.5
Severity:
HIGH
Confidentiality:
None
Integrity:
None
Availability:
None
Attack Vector:
Network
Attack Complexity:
Low
Privileges Required:
None
User Interaction:
None
Scope:
Unchanged

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

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