GHSA-vvm8-gf78-28g4
Suggest an improvement- Source
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-vvm8-gf78-28g4
- Import Source
- https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2026/10/GHSA-vvm8-gf78-28g4/GHSA-vvm8-gf78-28g4.json
- JSON Data
- https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/GHSA-vvm8-gf78-28g4
- Aliases
- Downstream
- Published
- 2026-10-28T21:14:08Z
- Modified
- 2026-10-28T21:30:05Z
- Severity
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- 6.9 (Medium) CVSS_V4 - CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N CVSS Calculator
- Summary
- Go JOSE: Panics in JSON parsing
- Details
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Summary
Parsing deeply nested JSON structures can hit Go's stack limit, causing the application to crash.
Note: this advisory is the same as https://github.com/go-jose/go-jose/security/advisories/GHSA-6mp9-8xrw-74r4.
Impact
Denial of service vulnerability. Any application that parses untrusted JSON via go-jose is exposed.
Workarounds
Reject large inputs before parsing them.
Acknowledgements
Thanks to Dohyun Kim (@azza999), Joshua Rogers of AISLE Research, and Sueun Cho for alerting us to the need to patch this.
- Database specific
{ "cwe_ids": [ "CWE-674" ], "github_reviewed": true, "github_reviewed_at": "2026-10-28T21:14:08Z", "nvd_published_at": "2026-10-26T22:16:55Z", "severity": "MODERATE" }- References
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- https://github.com/go-jose/go-jose/security/advisories/GHSA-vvm8-gf78-28g4
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-116586
- https://github.com/go-jose/go-jose/pull/290
- https://github.com/go-jose/go-jose/commit/a31af25836222f4c45d366d6e8f9b1049dd9935a
- https://github.com/go-jose/go-jose
- https://github.com/go-jose/go-jose/releases/tag/v4.1.5
Affected packages
Go / github.com/go-jose/go-jose/v4
Package
- Name
- github.com/go-jose/go-jose/v4
- View open source insights on deps.dev
- Purl
- pkg:golang/github.com/go-jose/go-jose/v4
Go / github.com/go-jose/go-jose/v3
Package
- Name
- github.com/go-jose/go-jose/v3
- View open source insights on deps.dev
- Purl
- pkg:golang/github.com/go-jose/go-jose/v3