# CVE-2022-41724: Panic on large handshake records in crypto/tls

- Also known as: GO-2023-1570, BIT-GOLANG-2022-41724
- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 1.19.6, 1.20.1
- Published: 2023-02-28 · Updated: 2025-03-07

## Affected

- crypto/tls: fixed in 1.19.6; from 1.20.0-0, fixed in 1.20.1
- stdlib (Go): fixed in 1.19.6; from 1.20.0-0, fixed in 1.20.1

## Description

Large handshake records may cause panics in crypto/tls. Both clients and servers may send large TLS handshake records which cause servers and clients, respectively, to panic when attempting to construct responses. This affects all TLS 1.3 clients, TLS 1.2 clients which explicitly enable session resumption (by setting Config.ClientSessionCache to a non-nil value), and TLS 1.3 servers which request client certificates (by setting Config.ClientAuth >= RequestClientCert).

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on crypto/tls, stdlib, upgrade to a fixed version (1.19.6, 1.20.1) per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://go.dev/issue/58001
- https://go.dev/cl/468125
- https://groups.google.com/g/golang-announce/c/V0aBFqaFs_E
- https://pkg.go.dev/vuln/GO-2023-1570
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202311-09

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