CVE-2026-33814 (GCVE-0-2026-33814)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-05-07 19:41 – Updated: 2026-05-08 18:01
VLAI?
Title
Infinite loop in HTTP/2 transport when given bad SETTINGS_MAX_FRAME_SIZE in net/http/internal/http2 in golang.org/x/net
Summary
When processing HTTP/2 SETTINGS frames, transport will enter an infinite loop of writing CONTINUATION frames if it receives a SETTINGS_MAX_FRAME_SIZE with a value of 0.
Severity ?
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-835 - Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop')
Assigner
Go
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
golang.org/x/net golang.org/x/net/http2 Affected: 0 , < 0.53.0 (semver)
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Go standard library net/http Affected: 0 , < 1.25.10 (semver)
Affected: 1.26.0-0 , < 1.26.3 (semver)
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Credits
Marwan Atia (marwansamir688@gmail.com)
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