GO-2021-0172

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Denial of service when parsing large forms in mime/multipart

view advisory published 2022-02-15Licence: per source

When parsing large multipart/form-data, an attacker can cause a HTTP server to open a large number of file descriptors. This may be used as a denial-of-service vector.

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Related CVEs.

IDseverity exploitable
CVE-2017-1000098UShigh7.5—
The net/http package's Request.ParseMultipartForm method starts writing to temporary files once the request body size surpasses the given "maxMemory" limit. It was possible for an…
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