Uncontrolled Recursion Affecting std/encoding/gob package, versions <1.17.12>=1.18.0-0 <1.18.4


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.7% (75th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-GOLANG-STDENCODINGGOB-14545582
  • published6 Jan 2026
  • disclosed20 Jul 2022
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 20 Jul 2022

CVE-2022-30635  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-674  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade std/encoding/gob to version 1.17.12, 1.18.4 or higher.

Overview

std/encoding/gob is a Go standard library package std/encoding/gob

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Uncontrolled Recursion.

Go Vulnerability Report:
Calling Decoder.Decode on a message which contains deeply nested structures can cause a panic due to stack exhaustion.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1