CVE-2022-30631

HIGH7.5

Stack exhaustion when reading certain archives in compress/gzip

Published Aug 9, 2022

Modified 4 months ago

Details

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.

References

WEB

https://go.dev/cl/417067

WEB

https://go.dev/issue/53168

WEB

https://go.googlesource.com/go/+/b2b8872c876201eac2d0707276c6999ff3eb185e

WEB

https://groups.google.com/g/golang-announce/c/nqrv9fbR0zE

WEB

https://pkg.go.dev/vuln/GO-2022-0524

ADVISORY

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-30631

CVSS Analysis

CVSS v3.1

7.5

Exploitability

Attack Vector

NetworkAV:N

Attack Complexity

LowAC:L

Privileges Required

NonePR:N

User Interaction

NoneUI:N

Scope

UnchangedS:U

Impact

Confidentiality

NoneC:N

Integrity

NoneI:N

Availability

HighA:H

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

Ecosystems

Timeline

PublishedAug 9, 2022

ModifiedOct 20, 2025