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TI-2022-20116 Aliases CVE-2022-41725GHSA-w4h2-22wh-m6jx

Excessive resource consumption in mime/multipart

Priority MEDIUM 41CWE-770Published · Updated

Key facts

Attack vector
Network
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Attack complexity
Low
Impact type
Denial of service
Confidentiality · integrity · availability
None · None · High
Fix status
Partial Red Hat: 22 fixed, 31 without a fix

Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · NVD. Fix status from CNA and Red Hat. Impact type from CWE-770.

Summary

A denial of service is possible from excessive resource consumption in net/http and mime/multipart. Multipart form parsing with mime/multipart.Reader.ReadForm can consume largely unlimited amounts of memory and disk files. This also affects form parsing in the net/http package with the Request methods FormFile, FormValue, ParseMultipartForm, and PostFormValue. ReadForm takes a maxMemory parameter, and is documented as storing "up to maxMemory bytes +10MB (reserved for non-file parts) in memory". File parts which cannot be stored in memory are stored on disk in temporary files. The unconfigurable 10MB reserved for non-file parts is excessively large and can potentially open a denial of service vector on its own. However, ReadForm did not properly account for all memory consumed by a parsed form, such as map entry overhead, part names, and MIME headers, permitting a maliciously crafted form to consume well over 10MB. In addition, ReadForm contained no limit on the number of disk files created, permitting a relatively small request body to create a large number of disk temporary files. With fix, ReadForm now properly accounts for various forms of memory overhead, and should now stay within its documented limit of 10MB + maxMemory bytes of memory consumption. Users should still be aware that this limit is high and may still be hazardous. In addition, ReadForm now creates at most one on-disk temporary file, combining multiple form parts into a single temporary file. The mime/multipart.File interface type's documentation states, "If stored on disk, the File's underlying concrete type will be an *os.File.". This is no longer the case when a form contains more than one file part, due to this coalescing of parts into a single file. The previous behavior of using distinct files for each form part may be reenabled with the environment variable GODEBUG=multipartfiles=distinct. Users should be aware that multipart.ReadForm and the http.Request methods that call it do not limit the amount of disk consumed by temporary files. Callers can limit the size of form data with http.MaxBytesReader.

Why it matters now

Exploitation None reported CISA SSVC · not in CISA KEV
EPSS 0.01241 69th percentileScored 2026-11-07
Fix Partial mime/multipart (Go standard library): 1.19.6, 1.20.1Red Hat: 28 advisoriesRed Hat: 22 fixed, 31 without a fix

SSVC decision points

CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3

Exploitation
None
Automatable
Yes
Technical impact
Partial

The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versionsFixed inStatusSource
Go standard librarymime/multipartbefore 1.19.6; 1.20.0-0 to before 1.20.11.19.6, 1.20.1Patch availableCNA
  • mime/multipart VendorGo standard library Affected before 1.19.6; 1.20.0-0 to before 1.20.1 Fixed in 1.19.6, 1.20.1 Patch available CNA

CPE configurations NVD · 5

CPEVersionsRoleVendor
cpe:2.3:a:golang:go:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*before 1.19.6VulnerableGo standard library
cpe:2.3:a:golang:go:1.20.0:-:*:*:*:*:*:*1.20.0VulnerableGo standard library
cpe:2.3:a:golang:go:1.20.0:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*1.20.0 rc1VulnerableGo standard library
cpe:2.3:a:golang:go:1.20.0:rc2:*:*:*:*:*:*1.20.0 rc2VulnerableGo standard library
cpe:2.3:a:golang:go:1.20.0:rc3:*:*:*:*:*:*1.20.0 rc3VulnerableGo standard library

Remediation

  • Fix · CNA mime/multipart (Go standard library) Fixed in 1.19.6, 1.20.1

Red Hat 28 advisories

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  • RHSA-2023:7672 Released 2023-12-06 · Red Hat rating Moderate
    OpenShift Virtualization 4.14.1 RPMs security and bug fix update
    • CNV 4.14 for RHEL 8 kubevirt-4.14.1-2150.el8, kubevirt-virtctl-4.14.1-2150.el8, kubevirt-virtctl-redistributable-4.14.1-2150.el8
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    container-tools:rhel8 security and bug fix update
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Vendor assessments

Red Hat

Red Hat rating: Moderate. Red Hat's page for this CVE →

ProductStatusPlan or fix
Node HealthCheck OperatorAffectedNo fix yet
Node Maintenance OperatorAffectedNo fix yet
OpenShift Developer Tools and ServicesAffectedNo fix yet
OpenShift PipelinesAffectedNo fix planned: Will not fix
OpenShift ServerlessAffectedNo fix yet
OpenShift Service Mesh 2AffectedNo fix yet
Red Hat 3scale API Management Platform 2AffectedNo fix yet
Red Hat AMQ Broker 7AffectedNo fix yet
Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2AffectedNo fix yet
Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security 3AffectedNo fix yet
Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2AffectedNo fix yet
Red Hat Application Interconnect 1.0AffectedNo fix yet
Red Hat Ceph Storage 3AffectedNo fix planned: Out of support scope
Red Hat Ceph Storage 5AffectedNo fix yet
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8AffectedNo fix yet
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9AffectedNo fix planned: Will not fix
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4AffectedNo fix yet
Red Hat OpenShift Data Science (RHODS)AffectedNo fix yet
Red Hat OpenShift Dev SpacesAffectedNo fix yet
Red Hat OpenShift GitOpsAffectedNo fix yet
Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization 4AffectedNo fix yet
Red Hat OpenShift distributed tracing 2AffectedNo fix yet
Red Hat OpenShift on AWSAffectedNo fix planned: Will not fix
Red Hat OpenStack Platform 17.0AffectedNo fix planned: Will not fix
Red Hat Openshift Data Foundation 4AffectedNo fix yet
Red Hat Openshift Sandboxed ContainersAffectedNo fix yet
Red Hat Storage 3AffectedNo fix planned: Will not fix
Red Hat Web TerminalAffectedNo fix yet
Self Node Remediation OperatorAffectedNo fix yet
Service Telemetry Framework 1.4 for RHEL 8AffectedNo fix planned: Will not fix
Service Telemetry Framework 1.5AffectedNo fix planned: Will not fix
8Base-MTV-2.4Fixed—
8Base-OADP-1.1Fixed RHSA-2023:1639
8Base-RHMTC-1.7Fixed RHSA-2023:2107
CNV 4.14 for RHEL 8Fixed RHSA-2023:7672
CNV 4.14 for RHEL 9Fixed RHSA-2023:6817
Cryostat 2 on RHEL 8Fixed RHSA-2023:3167
MTA 6.2 for RHEL 8Fixed RHSA-2023:4627
Middleware Containers for OpenShiftFixed RHSA-2024:2944
NETOBSERV 1.2 for RHEL 9Fixed RHSA-2023:1817
OSSO 1.1 for RHEL 8Fixed RHSA-2023:0584
Quay v3Fixed—
RHODF 4.13 for RHEL 9Fixed RHSA-2023:3742
Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.3 for RHEL 8Fixed RHSA-2023:4470
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8)Fixed RHSA-2023:3083, RHSA-2023:6938, RHSA-2023:6939
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9)Fixed RHSA-2023:6346, RHSA-2023:6363, RHSA-2023:6402, RHSA-2023:6473, RHSA-2023:6474
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.12Fixed—
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.13Fixed RHSA-2023:1325, RHSA-2023:1326, RHSA-2023:3612
Red Hat OpenShift Serverless 1.0Fixed RHSA-2023:3450
Red Hat OpenShift Serverless 1.29Fixed RHSA-2023:3455
Red Hat OpenStack Platform 16.2Fixed RHSA-2023:3445, RHSA-2023:5935, RHSA-2023:5964
Red Hat Service InterconnectFixed RHSA-2023:4003
Red Hat Service Interconnect 1Fixed RHSA-2023:4003
Not affected: 23 products
  • 8Base-MTV-2.4
  • 8Base-OADP-1.1
  • 8Base-RHMTC-1.7
  • CNV 4.14 for RHEL 9
  • Custom Metric Autoscaler operator for Red Hat Openshift
  • Ironic content for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.13
  • Logging Subsystem for Red Hat OpenShift
  • MTA 6.2 for RHEL 8
  • Middleware Containers for OpenShift
  • NETOBSERV 1.2 for RHEL 9
  • OSSO 1.1 for RHEL 8
  • RHODF 4.13 for RHEL 9
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9)
  • Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4
  • Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.13
  • Red Hat OpenStack Platform 16.2
  • Red Hat OpenStack Platform 17.0
  • Red Hat Satellite 6
  • Red Hat Service Interconnect
  • Red Hat Service Interconnect 1
  • streams for Apache Kafka

Timeline

  1. 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2022-41725
  2. 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-w4h2-22wh-m6jx

References

  • TI-2020-00578 Improper certificate validation in Microsoft Windows KEVCVSS 3.1HIGH 8.1
  • TI-2023-23979 The HTTP/2 protocol allows a denial of service (server resource consumption) because… KEVCVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5
  • TI-2018-05208 The "go get" implementation in Go 1.9.4, when the -insecure command-line option is used… CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.8
  • TI-2018-12083 Improper input validation in [UNKNOWN] golang CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.1
  • TI-2024-16306 Mishandling of corrupt central directory record in archive/zip CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 5.5
  • TI-2021-15910 Go before 1.16.9 and 1.17.x before 1.17.2 has a Buffer Overflow via large arguments in a… CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
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