CVE-2022-2879

highpriority · track · 31EPSS 0.020 · 81 %ileDEEUUS

grimoire priorityP2 · Scheduled

Exploitable?

—

no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

2.01% (81st) EPSS

CVSS 7.5 · high

Is it mine?

23 products

Check your exposure

Who says so?

5 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · osv · cert_bund

EPSS · scored 2026-10-22

Reader.Read does not set a limit on the maximum size of file headers. A maliciously crafted archive could cause Read to allocate unbounded amounts of memory, potentially causing resource exhaustion or panics. After fix, Reader.Read limits the maximum size of header blocks to 1 MiB.

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

7.5

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · medium–high · 6.9–7.5

v3.17.5highCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:Hprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 3.9 · impact 3.6

v3.16.9mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-770USprimary

affected products (23)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

Dell Data Protection Advisor <19.12all versionscert_bundDE
IBM DB2all versionscert_bundDEcpe:/a:ibm:db2:-
Red Hat Enterprise Linuxall versionscert_bundDEcpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:-
SUSE Linuxall versionscert_bundDEcpe:/o:suse:suse_linux:-
Splunk Splunk Enterprise <8.1.14all versionscert_bundDE
Splunk Splunk Enterprise <8.2.11all versionscert_bundDE
Splunk Splunk Enterprise <9.0.5all versionscert_bundDE
Atlassian Confluence< 10.0.2cert_bundDE
Atlassian Confluence< 10.1.1cert_bundDE
Atlassian Confluence< 8.5.25cert_bundDE
Atlassian Confluence< 9.2.7cert_bundDE
Dell Data Protection Advisor< 19.12cert_bundDE
Splunk Splunk Enterprise< 8.1.14cert_bundDE
Splunk Splunk Enterprise< 8.2.11cert_bundDE
Splunk Splunk Enterprise< 9.0.5cert_bundDE
Go standard library archive/tar0 → 1.18.7enisa_euvdEU
Go standard library archive/tar1.19.0-0 → 1.19.2enisa_euvdEU
golang go< 1.18.7nvdUScpe:2.3:a:golang:go:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
golang go1.19.0 → 1.19.2nvdUScpe:2.3:a:golang:go:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Bitnami golang< 1.18.7osvUSpkg:bitnami/golang

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advisories (8)

Vendor and ecosystem advisories describing this.

WID-SEC-W-2023-0157Red Hat OpenShift: Mehrere SchwachstellenDeutsch2023-01-19csaf · cert_bundDE
Ein entfernter, anonymer Angreifer kann mehrere Schwachstellen in Red Hat OpenShift ausnutzen, um beliebigen Programmcode auszuführen Informationen offenzulegen oder einen Denial of Service zu verursachen.
WID-SEC-W-2023-0318Red Hat Migration Toolkit for Containers: Mehrere SchwachstellenDeutsch2023-02-08csaf · cert_bundDE
Ein entfernter, anonymer oder angemeldeter Angreifer kann mehrere Schwachstellen in Red Hat Migration Toolkit for Containers ausnutzen, um seine Rechte zu erweitern, einen Denial of Service zu verursachen, Sicherheitsvorkehrungen zu umgehen und Informationen offenzulegen.
WID-SEC-W-2023-1350Splunk Splunk Enterprise: Mehrere Schwachstellen in Komponenten von DrittanbieternDeutsch2023-06-01csaf · cert_bundDE
Ein Angreifer kann mehrere Schwachstellen in Splunk Splunk Enterprise in diversen Komponenten von Drittanbietern ausnutzen, um einen nicht näher spezifizierten Angriff durchzuführen.
WID-SEC-W-2023-1424Xerox FreeFlow Print Server für Solaris: Mehrere SchwachstellenDeutsch2023-06-12csaf · cert_bundDE
Ein Angreifer kann mehrere Schwachstellen in Xerox FreeFlow Print Server ausnutzen, um die Vertraulichkeit, Verfügbarkeit und Integrität des Systems zu gefährden.
WID-SEC-W-2023-1542Red Hat OpenShift: Mehrere SchwachstellenDeutsch2023-06-22csaf · cert_bundDE
Ein entfernter, anonymer Angreifer kann mehrere Schwachstellen in Red Hat OpenShift ausnutzen, um einen Denial of Service Zustand herbeizuführen, Informationen offenzulegen, Dateien zu manipulieren oder Sicherheitsvorkehrungen zu umgehen.
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-2022-2879Unbounded memory consumption when reading headers in archive/tar2024-03-06vendor · osvUS
Reader.Read does not set a limit on the maximum size of file headers. A maliciously crafted archive could cause Read to allocate unbounded amounts of memory, potentially causing resource exhaustion or panics. After fix, Reader.Read limits the maximum size of header blocks to 1 MiB.
GO-2022-1037Unbounded memory consumption when reading headers in archive/tar2022-10-06vendor · osvUS
Reader.Read does not set a limit on the maximum size of file headers. A maliciously crafted archive could cause Read to allocate unbounded amounts of memory, potentially causing resource exhaustion or panics. After fix, Reader.Read limits the maximum size of header blocks to 1 MiB.

also known as (5)

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sources

Which sources assert this record, and when.

cnnvd enisa_euvd osv cert_bund nvd NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2022-10-14modified 2026-06-17

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references (38)

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