Google Go encoding-gob recursion

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in Google Go. The impacted element is an unknown function of the component encoding-gob. The manipulation leads to recursion. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2024-34156. The attack is possible to be carried out remotely. No exploit exists. It is advisable to upgrade the affected component.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Google Go (affected version unknown). It has been rated as problematic. This issue affects an unknown functionality of the component encoding-gob. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a recursion vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-674. The product does not properly control the amount of recursion that takes place, consuming excessive resources, such as allocated memory or the program stack. Impacted is availability. The summary by CVE is:

Calling Decoder.Decode on a message which contains deeply nested structures can cause a panic due to stack exhaustion. This is a follow-up to CVE-2022-30635.

The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2024-34156 since 05/01/2024. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1499 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 207816 (RHEL 9 : grafana (RHSA-2024:7202)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment.

Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at Tenable (207816) and CERT Bund (WID-SEC-2024-3250). Be aware that VulDB is the high quality source for vulnerability data.

Affected

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux
  • Red Hat OpenShift
  • Atlassian Bitbucket
  • Atlassian Confluence

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VulDB Meta Base Score: 6.4
VulDB Meta Temp Score: 6.3

VulDB Base Score: 5.3
VulDB Temp Score: 5.1
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Exploitinginfo

Class: Recursion
CWE: CWE-674 / CWE-404
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Physical: No
Local: No
Remote: Yes

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Status: Not defined

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Nessus ID: 207816
Nessus Name: RHEL 9 : grafana (RHSA-2024:7202)

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Countermeasuresinfo

Recommended: Upgrade
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Timelineinfo

05/01/2024 🔍
09/06/2024 +128 days 🔍
09/06/2024 +0 days 🔍
11/19/2025 +439 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Vendor: google.com

Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2024-34156 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2024-34156
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-276767
CERT Bund: WID-SEC-2024-3250 - Red Hat OpenShift: Mehrere Schwachstellen

Entryinfo

Created: 09/06/2024 23:17
Updated: 11/19/2025 11:04
Changes: 09/06/2024 23:17 (51), 09/09/2024 21:06 (12), 09/27/2024 08:13 (2), 11/19/2025 11:04 (7)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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