Race Condition Affecting std/net/http package, versions <1.13.13>=1.14.0-0 <1.14.5


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.61% (70th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-GOLANG-STDNETHTTP-14548604
  • published6 Jan 2026
  • disclosed17 Feb 2022
  • creditMikael Manukyan, Andrew Kutz, Dave McClure, Tim Downey, Clay Kauzlaric, Gabe Rosenhouse

Introduced: 17 Feb 2022

CVE-2020-15586  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-362  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade std/net/http to version 1.13.13, 1.14.5 or higher.

Overview

std/net/http is a Go standard library package std/net/http

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Race Condition.

Go Vulnerability Report:
HTTP servers where the Handler concurrently reads the request body and writes a response can encounter a data race and crash. The httputil.ReverseProxy Handler is affected.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1