🛡️ CVE-2023-23626
🟡 CVSS 5.9 — Medium ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-1284 NVD
5.9
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

go-bitfield is a simple bitfield package for the go language aiming to be more performant that the standard library. When feeding untrusted user input into the size parameter of `NewBitfield` and `FromBytes` functions, an attacker can trigger `panic`s. This happen when the `size` is a not a multiple of `8` or is negative. There were already a note in the `NewBitfield` documentation, however known users of this package are subject to this issue. Users are advised to upgrade. Users unable to upgrade should ensure that `size` is a multiple of 8 before calling `NewBitfield` or `FromBytes`.

Details

Severity Medium
CVSS Score 5.9
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE CWE-1284
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2023-02-10
Updated 2026-06-15
Modified 2023-11-08

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
github.com/ipfs/go-bitfield
go-bitfield 1.1.0

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