Resource exhaustion in Golang Go
CVE-2021-44716
net/http in Go before 1.16.12 and 1.17.x before 1.17.5 allows uncontrolled memory consumption in the header canonicalization cache via HTTP/2 requests.
Vulnerability class: DoS (Denial of Service)
EPSS: 0.040 (89.1th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
CVSS v3 metric
CVSS v3 base score 7.5 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.
Affected products
- Golang Go
- Netapp Cloud_insights_telegraf
- Debian Debian_linux — versions 9.0
- N/a — versions n/a
Weakness classification (CWE)
Public proof-of-concept exploits
References
- cve@mitre.org (Patch, Mailing List, Vendor Advisory)
- cve@mitre.org (Third Party Advisory)
- cve@mitre.org (mailing-list, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
- cve@mitre.org (mailing-list, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
- cve@mitre.org (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
- cve@mitre.org
- cve@mitre.org (mailing-list)
Frequently asked questions
- What is CVE-2021-44716?
- CVE-2021-44716 is a high-severity vulnerability in Golang Go, classified under Uncontrolled Resource Consumption. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2022-01-01.
- How severe is CVE-2021-44716?
- High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.
- Is CVE-2021-44716 known to be exploited?
- 8 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.