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CVE-2026-42328 (GCVE-0-2026-42328)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-05-27 16:31 – Updated: 2026-05-28 14:14

Title

go-ipld-prime: DAG-CBOR and DAG-JSON decoders unbounded recursion depth

Summary

go-ipld-prime is an implementation of the InterPlanetary Linked Data (IPLD) spec interfaces, a batteries-included codec implementations of IPLD for CBOR and JSON, and tooling for basic operations on IPLD objects. Prior to 0.23.0, the DAG-CBOR and DAG-JSON decoders recurse on each nested map or list without a depth limit. A payload containing deeply nested collections causes the decoder to recurse once per level, growing the goroutine stack until the Go runtime terminates the process with a fatal stack overflow (distinct from a recoverable panic). This vulnerability is fixed in 0.23.0.

Severity

6.2 (Medium)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2026-05-28 14:14 UTC

CWE

CWE-674 - Uncontrolled Recursion

Assigner

GitHub_M mitre root

References

1 reference

URL	Tags
https://github.com/ipld/go-ipld-prime/security/ad…	x_refsource_CONFIRM

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version	CPE status
ipld	go-ipld-prime	Affected: < 0.23.0	guessed

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FKIE_CVE-2026-42328

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2026-05-27 18:16 - Updated: 2026-06-17 10:47

Severity

6.2 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Summary

References

	URL	Tags
	security-advisories@github.com	https://github.com/ipld/go-ipld-prime/security/advisories/GHSA-w239-58x2-q8p5

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version

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GHSA-W239-58X2-Q8P5

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2026-05-07 02:07 – Updated: 2026-06-08 23:47

Summary

go-ipld-prime's DAG-CBOR and DAG-JSON decoders have unbounded recursion depth

Details

The DAG-CBOR and DAG-JSON decoders recurse on each nested map or list without a depth limit. A payload containing deeply nested collections causes the decoder to recurse once per level, growing the goroutine stack until the Go runtime terminates the process with a fatal stack overflow (distinct from a recoverable panic).

For DAG-CBOR, a payload of approximately 2 MB, consisting of repeated 0x81 (array-of-1) bytes followed by a terminator, produces around 2 million recursion frames and reliably exhausts Go's default 1 GB goroutine stack. The existing allocation budget does not prevent this: each nested collection header costs only a handful of budget units, so the stack is exhausted before the budget is. DAG-JSON has equivalent exposure via [[[...]]]-style payloads; it has no budget system and is therefore unprotected against recursion depth as well.

Schema-free decoding (using basicnode.Prototype.Any) allows arbitrary nesting depth. Schema-bound decoding bounds nesting only when the schema itself is non-recursive and contains no fields typed as Any; schemas with recursive type references or any Any-typed fields permit unconstrained nesting at those points.

The fix adds a configurable MaxDepth option to both decoders, defaulting to 1024 nested levels. The decoder returns ErrDecodeDepthExceeded when a payload nests beyond the limit. Well-formed IPLD data rarely approaches this depth in practice; the default is generous for legitimate use while preventing stack exhaustion.

Severity

6.2 (Medium)


                  
                    CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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