Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling Affecting std/net/http package, versions <1.19.6>=1.20.0-0 <1.20.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.23% (46th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-GOLANG-STDNETHTTP-14565077
  • published6 Jan 2026
  • disclosed16 Feb 2023
  • creditPhilippe Antoine

Introduced: 16 Feb 2023

CVE-2022-41723  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-770  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade std/net/http to version 1.19.6, 1.20.1 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:
A maliciously crafted HTTP/2 stream could cause excessive CPU consumption in the HPACK decoder, sufficient to cause a denial of service from a small number of small requests.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1