7.5

CVE-2024-34156: Stack exhaustion in Decoder.Decode in encoding/gob

Deferred
AliasesRHEA-2024:4866RHSA-2024:11216RHSA-2024:11217
Published 06-09-2024Last modified 26-09-2024

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2024-34156 is a high (CVSS 7.5) vulnerability in go standard library encoding/gob. EPSS estimates a 1.13% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 66.3% of scored vulnerabilities.

Priority
Prioritisesevere

Severe, CVSS 7.5 (CVE.org); no exploitation reported by the 5 checked sources; EPSS 1% (FIRST, 03-11-2026)

Source freshness unavailable

How is this decided?
CVSS score
7.5/10
010
High · v3.1 (CVE.org)
EPSS score
1.13%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedNot listed by any tracked catalog.
RansomwareNot flaggedNo ransomware use recorded.
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 41 · Related 867
MGASA-2024-0376OPENSUSE-SU-2024:14323-1OPENSUSE-SU-2024:14324-1OPENSUSE-SU-2025:0056-1RHSA-2024:6908RHSA-2024:6912

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Timeline

  1. 06-09-2024
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 26-09-2024
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

Calling Decoder.Decode on a message which contains deeply nested structures can cause a panic due to stack exhaustion. This is a follow-up to CVE-2022-30635.

CVSS metrics

6 scores · 6 sources · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

1.13%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

66%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

No change 0.00 pp

From 1.13% on 04-10-2026

04-10-202603-11-2026

Known exploited

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CISA KEV

Not in the CISA KEV catalog.

ENISA CNW

Not in the ENISA CNW catalog.

CIRCL

Not in the CIRCL catalog.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

No weakness data has been published for this record.

Affected systems

Version check

Known conditions: network-reachable, no authentication, no user interaction (CVSS vector). Other conditions: not stated in public data.

Chainguard199 products
  • aactl< 0.4.12-r18
  • actions-runner-controller< 0.9.3-r2
  • actions-runner-controller-compat< 0.9.3-r2
  • actions-runner-controller-fips< 0.9.3-r2
  • actions-runner-controller-fips-compat< 0.9.3-r2
Alpine1 product
  • go< 1.22.7-r0 | < 1.23.1-r0

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