CVE-2021-27919
mediumpriority · track · 23EPSS 0.015 · 74 %ileDEEUUSEPSS · scored 2026-10-27
archive/zip in Go 1.16.x before 1.16.1 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (panic) upon attempted use of the Reader.Open API for a ZIP archive in which ../ occurs at the beginning of any filename.
cvss
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base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode
weaknesses
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affected products (29)
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advisories (3)
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- WID-SEC-W-2023-2229Splunk Splunk Enterprise: Mehrere SchwachstellenDeutsch2023-08-30csaf · cert_bundDE
Ein entfernter, authentifizierter Angreifer kann mehrere Schwachstellen in Splunk Splunk Enterprise ausnutzen, um beliebigen Code auszuführen, einen 'Denial of Service'-Zustand zu verursachen, seine Privilegien zu erweitern und weitere, nicht spezifizierte Auswirkungen zu verursachen.
- BIT-golang-2021-279192024-03-06vendor · osvUS
archive/zip in Go 1.16.x before 1.16.1 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (panic) upon attempted use of the Reader.Open API for a ZIP archive in which ../ occurs at the beginning of any filename.
- GO-2021-0067Panic when opening archives in archive/zip2021-04-14vendor · osvUS
Using Reader.Open on an archive containing a file with a path prefixed by "../" will cause a panic due to a stack overflow. If parsing user supplied archives, this may be used as a denial of service vector.
also known as (5)
Other names and identifiers for this entity.
- CNNVD-202103-722cnnvd
- EUVD-2021-14642enisa_euvd
- GHSA-v7gg-6p99-5jxqenisa_euvd
- BIT-golang-2021-27919osv
- GO-2021-0067osv
sources
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references (18)
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- https://groups.google.com/g/golang-announce/c/MfiLYjG-RAwcnnvd
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/2MU47VKTNXX33ZDLTI2ORRUY3KLJKU6G/cnnvd
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/HM7U5JNS5WU66Q3S26PFIU2ITB2ATTQ4/cnnvd
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-27919cnnvd
- https://packetstormsecurity.com/files/167967/Gentoo-Linux-Security-Advisory-202208-02.htmlcnnvd
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202208-02cnnvd
- https://vigilance.fr/vulnerability/Go-denial-of-service-via-Reader-Open-34933cnnvd
- https://www.ibm.com/blogs/psirt/security-bulletin-ibm-api-connect-is-impacted-by-a-vulnerability-in-golang-cve-2021-27919/cnnvd
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