Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling Affecting std/crypto/tls package, versions >=1.21.0-0 <1.21.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.33% (70th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-GOLANG-STDCRYPTOTLS-14545633
  • published6 Jan 2026
  • disclosed7 Sept 2023
  • creditMarten Seemann

Introduced: 7 Sep 2023

CVE-2023-39322  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-770  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade std/crypto/tls to version 1.21.1 or higher.

Overview

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

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

Go Vulnerability Report:
QUIC connections do not set an upper bound on the amount of data buffered when reading post-handshake messages, allowing a malicious QUIC connection to cause unbounded memory growth.With fix, connections now consistently reject messages larger than 65KiB in size.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1