CVE-2022-30631

Aliases:GO-2022-0524BIT-golang-2022-30631
Advisory lineage Upstream: 0 Downstream: 31
Modified
Published: 09 Aug 2022, 20:16
Last modified:20 Oct 2025, 17:51

Vulnerability Summary

Overall Risk (default)
medium
30/100
CVSS Score
7.5 HIGH
v3.1 (cve.org)
EPSS Score
0.06% LOW
0% probability +0.01%
KEV
Not listed
Ransomware
No reports
Public exploits
None found
Dark Web
Not detected

Timeline

09 Aug 2022, 20:16
Published
Vulnerability first disclosed
20 Oct 2025, 17:51
Last Modified
Vulnerability information updated

Description

Uncontrolled recursion in Reader.Read in compress/gzip before Go 1.17.12 and Go 1.18.4 allows an attacker to cause a panic due to stack exhaustion via an archive containing a large number of concatenated 0-length compressed files.

CVSS Metrics

  • v3.1•HIGH•Score: 7.5CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

EPSS Trends

Current EPSS score: 0.06%• Percentile: 18%

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•compress/gzip

    < 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)