GitHub Advisoryadvisory · Go
GHSA-54p8-x2m9-c593 malcontent: Error-path cleanup gap can leak scanners and fds and degrade availability
MEDIUM
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- Ecosystem
- Go
- Packages
- github.com/chainguard-dev/malcontent
- Severity
- Moderate
- CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
- Weaknesses
- CWE-400
- Reviewed
- 2026-03-02
Affected packages
• Go github.com/chainguard-dev/malcontent: < 1.21.0 → fixed in 1.21.0
Description
Several extraction and scanning code paths registered late defers which could leak resources and exhaust system resources.
This report is an aggregate of these individual reports for the affected code:
Advisory | Affected File
-- | --
`GHSA-jjgh-mc5q-gch7` | `pkg/action/scan.go`
`GHSA-mwmf-fxh2-w4x7` | `pkg/archive/deb.go`
`GHSA-p8j3-rpf5-gwv3` | `pkg/archive/gzip.go`
`GHSA-qfh4-7f5v-75gq` | `pkg/archive/zlib.go`
`GHSA-wxxf-r586-5rf5` | `pkg/archive/bzip2.go`
Fix: #1354, #1355, #1356, #1361
Acknowledgements
Thank you to Oleh Konko from 1seal for discovering and reporting all six of these issues.
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption weakness
References
- https://github.com/chainguard-dev/malcontent/security/advisories/GHSA-54p8-x2m9-c593 web
- https://github.com/chainguard-dev/malcontent/pull/1354 web
- https://github.com/chainguard-dev/malcontent/pull/1355 web
- https://github.com/chainguard-dev/malcontent/pull/1356 web
- https://github.com/chainguard-dev/malcontent/pull/1361 web
- https://github.com/chainguard-dev/malcontent package