CVE-2026-32288
MEDIUMCVSS v3.1: 5.5 · EPSS: 0.0001 (0.3 percentile)
Source data as of:
At a glance
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS
- 5.5 v3.1 · NVD
- EPSS
- 0.0001 (0.3 percentile) · FIRST.org
- CISA KEV
- No
- Type
- Resource Exhaustion · NVD CWE
- Attack conditions (CVSS vector)
- No privileges · Source: NVD Vector
- Affected vendors
- golang
- Published
- 2026-04-08 · Modified: 2026-04-16
- References
- Jump to references (4)
CVSS / EPSS / KEV
Source — CVSS: NVD · EPSS: FIRST.org · KEV: CISA. Data & Sources
Description
tar.Reader can allocate an unbounded amount of memory when reading a maliciously-crafted archive containing a large number of sparse regions encoded in the "old GNU sparse map" format.
References
Reference URLs as listed by NVD, grouped by a mechanical match on the link's host/pattern. Labels describe the link type only.
- Vendor advisory https://go.dev/cl/763766
- Vendor advisory https://go.dev/issue/78301
- Reference https://groups.google.com/g/golang-announce/c/0uYbvbPZRWU
- Vendor advisory https://pkg.go.dev/vuln/GO-2026-4869