Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling Affecting std/net/http package, versions <1.18.9>=1.19.0-0 <1.19.4
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- published6 Jan 2026
- disclosed8 Dec 2022
- creditJosselin Costanzi
Introduced: 8 Dec 2022
CVE-2022-41717 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
Upgrade std/net/http to version 1.18.9, 1.19.4 or higher.
Overview
std/net/http is a Go standard library package std/net/http
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling.
Go Vulnerability Report:
An attacker can cause excessive memory growth in a Go server accepting HTTP/2 requests.HTTP/2 server connections contain a cache of HTTP header keys sent by the client. While the total number of entries in this cache is capped, an attacker sending very large keys can cause the server to allocate approximately 64 MiB per open connection.