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CVE-2021-44717

MEDIUM severity · CVSS 4.8 · CWE-404
4.8CVSS MEDIUM

Summary

Go before 1.16.12 and 1.17.x before 1.17.5 on UNIX allows write operations to an unintended file or unintended network connection as a consequence of erroneous closing of file descriptor 0 after file-descriptor exhaustion.

Impact & exploitability

Attack vectorNetwork
Attack complexityHigh
Privileges requiredNone
User interactionNone
Confidentiality impactLow
Integrity impactLow
Availability impactNone
Exploit probability (EPSS)0%

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

Affected products we track (1)

Go

Recommendation

Apply the vendor fix in your normal patch cycle. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.

Official patch: https://groups.google.com/g/golang-announce/c/hcmEScgc00k ↗

Last checked: Wed, 10 Jun 2026 22:18:30 UTC