CVE-2023-39326

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    CVE-2023-39326

    Published: 6 Dec 2023Last Modified: 12 Aug 2026

    Summary: Denial of service via chunk extensions in net/http

    Details: A malicious HTTP sender can use chunk extensions to cause a receiver reading from a request or response body to read many more bytes from the network than are in the body. A malicious HTTP client can further exploit this to cause a server to automatically read a large amount of data (up to about 1GiB) when a handler fails to read the entire body of a request. Chunk extensions are a little-used HTTP feature which permit including additional metadata in a request or response body sent using the chunked encoding. The net/http chunked encoding reader discards this metadata. A sender can exploit this by inserting a large metadata segment with each byte transferred. The chunk reader now produces an error if the ratio of real body to encoded bytes grows too small.

    Affected packages

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    Affected ranges

    Type: GIT

    Events:

    Affected versions

    go1.20.11
    go1.20.10
    go1.20.9
    go1.20.8
    go1.20.7
    go1.20.6
    go1.20.5
    go1.20.4
    go1.20.3
    go1.20.2
    go1.20.1
    go1.20

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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