Resource Exhaustion Affecting google-guest-agent package, versions <20230426.00-0ubuntu2


Severity

Recommended
low

Based on Ubuntu security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
3.96% (90th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU2604-GOOGLEGUESTAGENT-16215909
  • published24 Apr 2026
  • disclosed1 Jan 2022

Introduced: 1 Jan 2022

CVE-2021-44716  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Ubuntu:26.04 google-guest-agent to version 20230426.00-0ubuntu2 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream google-guest-agent package and not the google-guest-agent package as distributed by Ubuntu. See How to fix? for Ubuntu:26.04 relevant fixed versions and status.

net/http in Go before 1.16.12 and 1.17.x before 1.17.5 allows uncontrolled memory consumption in the header canonicalization cache via HTTP/2 requests.

CVSS Base Scores

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