CVE-2022-30631: Stack exhaustion when reading certain archives in compress/gzip
Vulnerability summary
CVE-2022-30631 is a high (CVSS 7.5) Uncontrolled Recursion vulnerability in go standard library compress/gzip. EPSS estimates a 2.19% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 82.4% of scored vulnerabilities.
Severe, CVSS 7.5 (CVE.org); no exploitation reported by the 5 checked sources; EPSS 2% (FIRST, 03-11-2026)
Source freshness unavailable
How is this decided?Advisory lineage
Upstream 0 · Downstream 27 · Related 7Timeline
- 09-08-2022PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
- 20-10-2025Last modifiedVulnerability 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
6 scores · 6 sources · 1 version- OSV · Red hatEcosystem advisory · calculated7.5HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- OSV · UbuntuEcosystem advisory · calculated7.5HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- OSV · DebianEcosystem advisory · calculated7.5HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- NVDNIST7.5HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- OSV · AlpineEcosystem advisory · calculated7.5HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS trend
Probability
2.19%
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days
Percentile
82%
Versus all other CVEs
30-day change
Increase +0.12 pp
From 2.07% on 04-10-2026
Known exploited
Compare KEV catalogs
CISA KEVNot in the CISA KEV catalog.
ENISA CNWNot in the ENISA CNW catalog.
CIRCLNot in the CIRCL catalog.
Public exploits
0 foundNo public exploits indexed.
Weaknesses
CWE · root causeAffected systems
Known conditions: network-reachable, no authentication, no user interaction (CVSS vector). Other conditions: not stated in public data.
Ubuntu3 products
- golang-1.13< 1.13.8-1ubuntu1~16.04.3+esm3 | < 1.13.8-1ubuntu1~18.04.4+esm1 | < 1.13.8-1ubuntu1.2 | < 1.13.8-1ubuntu2.22.04.2
- golang-1.16< 1.16.2-0ubuntu1~18.04.2+esm1 | < 1.16.2-0ubuntu1~20.04.1
- golang-1.18< 1.18.1-1ubuntu1~18.04.4 | < 1.18.1-1ubuntu1~20.04.2 | < 1.18.1-1ubuntu1.1
Alpine1 product
- go≥ 1.18.0, < 1.18.4-r0
Debian1 product
- golang-1.19< 1.19~rc2-1
Go1 product
- stdlib≥ 1.18.0-0, < 1.18.4
Go standard library1 product
- compress/gzip< 1.17.12 | ≥ 1.18.0-0, < 1.18.4
Golang1 product
- go< 1.17.12 | ≥ 1.18.0, < 1.18.4
Redhat1 product
- collectd-libpod-stats< 0:1.0.4-2.el8ost
7 vendors · 9 products
References
20 links- go.googlesource.com/go/+/b2b8872c876201eac2d0707276c6999ff3eb185eFIXMailing ListPatchVendor Advisory
- pkg.go.dev/vuln/GO-2022-0524Vendor Advisory
