Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling Affecting std/regexp package, versions <1.16.15>=1.17.0-0 <1.17.8
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- published6 Jan 2026
- disclosed23 May 2022
- creditJuho Nurminen
Introduced: 23 May 2022
CVE-2022-24921 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
Upgrade std/regexp to version 1.16.15, 1.17.8 or higher.
Overview
std/regexp is a Go standard library package std/regexp
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling.
Go Vulnerability Report:
On 64-bit platforms, an extremely deeply nested expression can cause regexp.Compile to cause goroutine stack exhaustion, forcing the program to exit. Note this applies to very large expressions, on the order of 2MB.