CVE-2022-1962

Publication date 10 August 2022

Last updated 29 July 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

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.

Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
golang-1.18	23.04 lunar	Not in release
	22.10 kinetic	Not in release
	22.04 LTS jammy	Fixed 1.18.1-1ubuntu1.1
	21.10 impish	Not in release
	20.04 LTS focal	Fixed 1.18.1-1ubuntu1~20.04.2
	18.04 LTS bionic	Fixed 1.18.1-1ubuntu1~18.04.4
	16.04 LTS xenial	Not in release
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not in release

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	5.5 · Medium
Attack vector	Local
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	Low
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	None
Integrity impact	None
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

USN-6038-1
Go vulnerabilities
25 April 2023