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GHSA-H524-452V-82P9

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2026-06-03 00:30 – Updated: 2026-06-03 18:33

Details

Decoding a maliciously-crafted MIME header containing many invalid encoded-words can consume excessive CPU.

Severity

7.5 (High)


                  
                    CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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  "id": "GHSA-h524-452v-82p9",
  "modified": "2026-06-03T18:33:09Z",
  "published": "2026-06-03T00:30:26Z",
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CVE-2026-42504 (GCVE-0-2026-42504)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-06-02 22:01 – Updated: 2026-06-03 14:06

Title

Quadratic complexity in WordDecoder.DecodeHeader in mime

Summary

Decoding a maliciously-crafted MIME header containing many invalid encoded-words can consume excessive CPU.

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 (v2.0.3)

CWE

CWE-407 - Inefficient Algorithmic Complexity

Assigner

References

4 references

URL	Tags
https://go.dev/issue/79217
https://go.dev/cl/774481
https://groups.google.com/g/golang-announce/c/tKs…
https://pkg.go.dev/vuln/GO-2026-5038

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
Go standard library	mime	Affected: 0 , < 1.25.11 (semver) Affected: 1.26.0-0 , < 1.26.4 (semver)

Credits

p4p3r (https://hackerone.com/p4p3r_hak)

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GHSA-H524-452V-82P9

CVE-2026-42504 (GCVE-0-2026-42504)

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