CVE-2022-1962 (GCVE-0-2022-1962)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-08-09 20:18 – Updated: 2026-03-06 19:08
VLAI
Title
Stack exhaustion due to deeply nested types in go/parser
Summary
Uncontrolled recursion in the Parse functions in go/parser before Go 1.17.12 and Go 1.18.4 allow an attacker to cause a panic due to stack exhaustion via deeply nested types or declarations.
Severity
5.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
Assigner
Go
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Go standard library go/parser Affected: 0 , < 1.17.12 (semver)
Affected: 1.18.0-0 , < 1.18.4 (semver)
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Credits
Juho Nurminen of Mattermost
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