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CVE-2022-1962
Stack exhaustion due to deeply nested types in go/parser
Medium5.5EPSS 0.92%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- Go
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.
Timeline
ID reserved
By Go
- 2 months later
· 2 months later
Published
- 4 years later
· 4 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| CISA-ADPADP (enrichment) | 3.1 | Medium5.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Medium5.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.92% · top 40% of all CVEs (7 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.5.
Weakness
- CWE-674: Uncontrolled Recursion
- CWE-674 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-674 and its CVEs
Affected products
Go standard library · go/parser
- affected < 1.17.12
- affected 1.18.0-0 – < 1.18.4
References (5)
- https://go.dev/cl/417063 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://go.googlesource.com/go/+/695be961d57508da5a82217f7415200a11845879 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://go.dev/issue/53616 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://groups.google.com/g/golang-announce/c/nqrv9fbR0zE (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://pkg.go.dev/vuln/GO-2022-0515 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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