Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling Affecting std/crypto/dsa package, versions <1.5.4>=1.6.0-0 <1.6.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
4.36% (92nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-GOLANG-STDCRYPTODSA-14564517
  • published6 Jan 2026
  • disclosed24 May 2022
  • creditDavid Wong

Introduced: 24 May 2022

CVE-2016-3959  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-770  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade std/crypto/dsa to version 1.5.4, 1.6.1 or higher.

Overview

std/crypto/dsa is a Go standard library package std/crypto/dsa

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling.

Go Vulnerability Report:
via the Verify function. An attacker can cause excessive resource consumption and make affected programs unresponsive by supplying specially crafted parameters.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1