Race Condition Affecting std/net/http/httputil package, versions <1.15.15>=1.16.0-0 <1.16.7


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
3.13% (87th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-GOLANG-STDNETHTTPHTTPUTIL-14548599
  • published6 Jan 2026
  • disclosed17 Feb 2022
  • creditAndrew Crump

Introduced: 17 Feb 2022

CVE-2021-36221  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-362  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade std/net/http/httputil to version 1.15.15, 1.16.7 or higher.

Overview

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

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Race Condition.

Go Vulnerability Report:
ReverseProxy can panic after encountering a problem copying a proxied response body.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1