CVE-2022-1962

Description

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.

CVSS Metrics

• v3.1•MEDIUM•Score: 5.5CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

EPSS Trends

Current EPSS score: 0.01%• Percentile: 0%

Techniques & Countermeasures

• CWE-674•Uncontrolled Recursion

  The product does not properly control the amount of recursion that takes place, consuming excessive resources, such as allocated memory or the program stack.

Affected Systems

• go standard library•go/parser

  < 1.17.12 | ≥ 1.18.0-0, < 1.18.4

• golang•go

  < 1.17.12 | ≥ 1.18.0, < 1.18.4

• Go•stdlib

  ≥ 1.18.0-0, < 1.18.4

References (5)

• https://go.dev/cl/417063
• https://go.googlesource.com/go/+/695be961d57508da5a82217f7415200a11845879
• https://go.dev/issue/53616
• https://groups.google.com/g/golang-announce/c/nqrv9fbR0zE
• https://pkg.go.dev/vuln/GO-2022-0515