Uncontrolled Recursion Affecting std/crypto/rand package, versions <1.17.11>=1.18.0-0 <1.18.3
Threat Intelligence
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- published6 Jan 2026
- disclosed9 Jun 2022
- creditDavis Goodin, Quim Muntal of Microsoft
Introduced: 9 Jun 2022
CVE-2022-30634 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
Upgrade std/crypto/rand to version 1.17.11, 1.18.3 or higher.
Overview
std/crypto/rand is a Go standard library package std/crypto/rand
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Uncontrolled Recursion.
Go Vulnerability Report:
in the rand.Read function on Windows when a buffer larger than 1 << 32 - 1 bytes is provided. An attacker can cause the process to hang indefinitely by supplying an excessively large buffer.