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CVE-2022-32149 (GCVE-0-2022-32149)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-10-14 00:00 – Updated: 2025-05-15 20:35
VLAI
Title
Denial of service via crafted Accept-Language header in golang.org/x/text/language
Summary
An attacker may cause a denial of service by crafting an Accept-Language header which ParseAcceptLanguage will take significant time to parse.
Severity
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: yes Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-05-15 20:34 UTC
CWE
  • CWE 400: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
golang.org/x/text golang.org/x/text/language Affected: 0 , < 0.3.8 (semver)
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Credits
Adam Korczynski (ADA Logics) OSS-Fuzz
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