CVE-2026-33814 (GCVE-0-2026-33814)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-05-07 19:41 – Updated: 2026-05-08 18:01
VLAI?
Title
Infinite loop in HTTP/2 transport when given bad SETTINGS_MAX_FRAME_SIZE in net/http/internal/http2 in golang.org/x/net
Summary
When processing HTTP/2 SETTINGS frames, transport will enter an infinite loop of writing CONTINUATION frames if it receives a SETTINGS_MAX_FRAME_SIZE with a value of 0.
Severity ?
7.5 (High)
CWE
- CWE-835 - Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop')
Assigner
References
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | |||||||
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| golang.org/x/net | golang.org/x/net/http2 |
Affected:
0 , < 0.53.0
(semver)
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Credits
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Nomenclature
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