VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2021-29923

CVSS score7.5 HIGH
EPSS probability3.74%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2021-08-07
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Description

Go before 1.17 does not properly consider extraneous zero characters at the beginning of an IP address octet, which (in some situations) allows attackers to bypass access control that is based on IP addresses, because of unexpected octal interpretation. This affects net.ParseIP and net.ParseCIDR.

Weakness classification

  • nvd@nist.gov: NVD-CWE-noinfo

Primary references