# CVE-2023-39326: Denial of service via chunk extensions in net/http

- Also known as: GO-2023-2382, BIT-GOLANG-2023-39326
- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 1.20.12, 1.21.5
- Published: 2023-12-06 · Updated: 2025-02-13

## Affected

- net/http/internal: fixed in 1.20.12; from 1.21.0-0, fixed in 1.21.5
- stdlib (Go): fixed in 1.20.12; from 1.21.0-0, fixed in 1.21.5

## Description

A malicious HTTP sender can use chunk extensions to cause a receiver reading from a request or response body to read many more bytes from the network than are in the body. A malicious HTTP client can further exploit this to cause a server to automatically read a large amount of data (up to about 1GiB) when a handler fails to read the entire body of a request. Chunk extensions are a little-used HTTP feature which permit including additional metadata in a request or response body sent using the chunked encoding. The net/http chunked encoding reader discards this metadata. A sender can exploit this by inserting a large metadata segment with each byte transferred. The chunk reader now produces an error if the ratio of real body to encoded bytes grows too small.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on net/http/internal, stdlib, upgrade to a fixed version (1.20.12, 1.21.5) per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://go.dev/issue/64433
- https://go.dev/cl/547335
- https://groups.google.com/g/golang-dev/c/6ypN5EjibjM/m/KmLVYH_uAgAJ
- https://pkg.go.dev/vuln/GO-2023-2382
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/UIU6HOGV6RRIKWM57LOXQA75BGZSIH6G/

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