Uncaught Exception Affecting std/math/big package, versions >=1.14.0-0 <1.14.12>=1.15.0-0 <1.15.5


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
3.86% (90th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-GOLANG-STDMATHBIG-14548676
  • published6 Jan 2026
  • disclosed14 Apr 2021
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 14 Apr 2021

CVE-2020-28362  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-248  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade std/math/big to version 1.14.12, 1.15.5 or higher.

Overview

std/math/big is a Go standard library package std/math/big

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Uncaught Exception.

Go Vulnerability Report:
A number of math/big.Int methods can panic when provided large inputs due to a flawed division method.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1