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CVE-2023-24534

HIGH severity · CVSS 7.5 · Uncontrolled resource consumption
7.5CVSS HIGH

Summary

HTTP and MIME header parsing can allocate large amounts of memory, even when parsing small inputs, potentially leading to a denial of service. Certain unusual patterns of input data can cause the common function used to parse HTTP and MIME headers to allocate substantially more memory than required to hold the parsed headers. An attacker can exploit this behavior to cause an HTTP server to allocate large amounts of memory from a small request, potentially leading to memory exhaustion and a denial of service. With fix, header parsing now correctly allocates only the memory required to hold parsed headers.

Impact & exploitability

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

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

Affected products we track (1)

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Recommendation

Apply the vendor fix promptly. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.

Official patch: https://go.dev/cl/481994 ↗

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