Uncontrolled recursion in the Parse functions in go/parser before Go 1.17.12 and Go 1.18.4 allow an attacker to cause a panic due to stack exhaustion via deeply nested types or declarations.
CVE-2022-1962
Score 5.5 from GitHub Security Advisory published 2022-08-11. NVD baseline CVSS 5.5; sources differ by 0.0.
- Lower severity and no public exploit yet
A fix is available — apply it.
- CVSS v3
- 5.5
- EG Score
- 5.5(medium)
- EPSS
- 54.3%
- KEV
- Not listed
Published
August 10, 2022
Last Modified
March 6, 2026
References (10)
- security@golanghttps://go.dev/cl/417063
- security@golanghttps://go.dev/issue/53616
- security@golanghttps://go.googlesource.com/go/+/695be961d57508da5a82217f7415200a11845879
- security@golanghttps://groups.google.com/g/golang-announce/c/nqrv9fbR0zE
- security@golanghttps://pkg.go.dev/vuln/GO-2022-0515
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://go.dev/cl/417063
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://go.dev/issue/53616
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://go.googlesource.com/go/+/695be961d57508da5a82217f7415200a11845879
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://groups.google.com/g/golang-announce/c/nqrv9fbR0zE
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://pkg.go.dev/vuln/GO-2022-0515
Vendor Advisories for CVE-2022-1962(20)
These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.
- RHSA-2024:1433Red Hat Product SecurityMedium
Red Hat Security Advisory: Migration Toolkit for Applications security and bug fix update
- RHSA-2024:1027Red Hat Product SecurityMedium
Red Hat Security Advisory: Migration Toolkit for Applications security update
- RHSA-2024:0778Red Hat Product SecurityHigh
Red Hat Security Advisory: Jenkins and Jenkins-2-plugins security update
- RHSA-2023:2802Red Hat Product SecurityMedium
Red Hat Security Advisory: container-tools:4.0 security and bug fix update
- RHSA-2023:2758Red Hat Product SecurityMedium
Red Hat Security Advisory: container-tools:rhel8 security, bug fix, and enhancement update
- RHSA-2023:1042Red Hat Product SecurityMedium
Red Hat Security Advisory: Custom Metrics Autoscaler Operator for Red Hat OpenShift (with security updates)
- RHSA-2023:0408Red Hat Product SecurityHigh
Red Hat Security Advisory: OpenShift Virtualization 4.12.0 Images security update
- RHSA-2023:0407Red Hat Product SecurityMedium
Red Hat Security Advisory: OpenShift Virtualization 4.12.0 RPMs security update
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Patch Availability(23)
Patches are aggregated from vendor advisories (Red Hat, Microsoft, Cisco, GitHub) and package ecosystems (OSV, GHSA). Multiple rows for the same upstream release have been deduplicated.
Affected Packages
(1 across 1 ecosystem)
Go(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fixed in | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| stdlib | — | 1.18.4 | — |
Weakness Classification(1)
MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.
Additional Vendor Advisories
(9)
Vendors that published advisories for this CVE beyond the curated set above. Broader coverage but minimal per-row detail — click through for the original advisory.
- Microsoft MSRCCVE-2022-19622022-08-16
Stack exhaustion due to deeply nested types in go/parser
- Red HatRHSA-2022:5775MODERATE2022-07-12
RHSA-2022:5775 — Moderate
- Red HatRHSA-2022:5799MODERATE2022-07-12
RHSA-2022:5799 — Moderate
- Red HatRHSA-2022:5866MODERATE2022-07-12
RHSA-2022:5866 — Moderate
- Red HatRHSA-2022:6040MODERATE2022-07-12
RHSA-2022:6040 — Moderate
- Red HatRHSA-2022:6042MODERATE2022-07-12
RHSA-2022:6042 — Moderate
- Red HatRHSA-2022:6113MODERATE2022-07-12
RHSA-2022:6113 — Moderate
- Red HatRHSA-2022:6188MODERATE2022-07-12
RHSA-2022:6188 — Moderate
- UbuntuUSN-6038-1MEDIUM
Go vulnerabilities
Data Freshness Timeline
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