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CVE-2022-1962: Stack exhaustion due to deeply nested types in go/parser

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2022-08-10 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-674

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.

Affected products

• Go: before 1.17.12; from 1.18.0 before 1.18.4 — fixed in 1.17.12, 1.18.4

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Go 1.17.12, 1.18.4. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://go.dev/cl/417063
• https://go.dev/issue/53616
• https://go.googlesource.com/go/+/695be961d57508da5a82217f7415200a11845879
• https://groups.google.com/g/golang-announce/c/nqrv9fbR0zE
• https://pkg.go.dev/vuln/GO-2022-0515
• https://go.dev/cl/417063
• https://go.dev/issue/53616
• https://go.googlesource.com/go/+/695be961d57508da5a82217f7415200a11845879
• https://groups.google.com/g/golang-announce/c/nqrv9fbR0zE
• https://pkg.go.dev/vuln/GO-2022-0515

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