GitHub Advisoryadvisory · Go
GHSA-69ch-w2m2-3vjp golang.org/x/text/language Denial of service via crafted Accept-Language header
HIGH
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- Aliases
- CVE-2022-32149
- Ecosystem
- Go
- Packages
- golang.org/x/text
- Severity
- High
- CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-772
- Reviewed
- 2022-10-28
Affected packages
• Go golang.org/x/text: < 0.3.8 → fixed in 0.3.8
Description
The BCP 47 tag parser has quadratic time complexity due to inherent aspects of its design. Since the parser is, by design, exposed to untrusted user input, this can be leveraged to force a program to consume significant time parsing Accept-Language headers. The parser cannot be easily rewritten to fix this behavior for various reasons. Instead the solution implemented in this CL is to limit the total complexity of tags passed into ParseAcceptLanguage by limiting the number of dashes in the string to 1000. This should be more than enough for the majority of real world use cases, where the number of tags being sent is likely to be in the single digits.
Specific Go Packages Affected
golang.org/x/text/language
Related
Alias · CVE (1)
- CVE-2022-32149 An attacker may cause a denial of service by crafting an Accept-Language header which ParseAcceptLanguage will take significant time to… vulnerability
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-772 Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime weakness
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-32149 advisory
- https://github.com/golang/go/issues/56152 web
- https://github.com/golang/text/commit/434eadcdbc3b0256971992e8c70027278364c72c web
- https://github.com/golang/text package
- https://go.dev/cl/442235 web
- https://go.dev/issue/56152 web
- https://groups.google.com/g/golang-announce/c/-hjNw559_tE/m/KlGTfid5CAAJ web
- https://pkg.go.dev/vuln/GO-2022-1059 web
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20230203-0006 web