Uncontrolled Recursion Affecting std/encoding/gob package, versions <1.22.7>=1.23.0-0 <1.23.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.13% (62nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-GOLANG-STDENCODINGGOB-14545643
  • published6 Jan 2026
  • disclosed6 Sept 2024
  • creditMd Sakib Anwar

Introduced: 6 Sep 2024

CVE-2024-34156  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-674  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade std/encoding/gob to version 1.22.7, 1.23.1 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. This is a follow-up to CVE-2022-30635.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1