🛡️ CVE-2013-10005 — go-socks

🟠 CVSS 8.0 — High ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-835 OSV
8.0
CVSS Score
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Description

socks Infinite Loop vulnerability

The RemoteAddr and LocalAddr methods on the returned net.Conn may call themselves, leading to an infinite loop which will crash the program due to a stack overflow.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality none, integrity none, availability high.

Weakness class

CVE-2013-10005 is classified as CWE-835: Infinite Loop. A loop condition can never become false for some inputs, hanging the process.

Affected software

CVE-2013-10005 is recorded against 2 packages.

  • github.com/btcsuite/go-socks
  • github.com/btcsuitereleases/go-socks

Timeline and source

Published on 28 December 2022 and last revised on 8 November 2023. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

nvd.nist.gov (Advisory)
github.com (Web)
github.com (Package)
pkg.go.dev (Web)

Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 8.0
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE CWE-835
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2022-12-28
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2023-11-08
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
github.com/btcsuite/go-socks — —
github.com/btcsuitereleases/go-socks — —

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