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CVE-2021-33196

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 3.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2021-08-02 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-20

Description

In archive/zip in Go before 1.15.13 and 1.16.x before 1.16.5, a crafted file count (in an archive's header) can cause a NewReader or OpenReader panic.

Affected products

• Debian Linux: 9.0
• Go: before 1.15.13; from 1.16.0 before 1.16.5 — fixed in 1.15.13, 1.16.5

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Go 1.15.13, 1.16.5. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://groups.google.com/g/golang-announce
• https://groups.google.com/g/golang-announce/c/RgCMkAEQjSI
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/01/msg00016.html
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/01/msg00017.html
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/04/msg00021.html
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202208-02
• https://groups.google.com/g/golang-announce
• https://groups.google.com/g/golang-announce/c/RgCMkAEQjSI
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/01/msg00016.html
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/01/msg00017.html
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/04/msg00021.html
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202208-02

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