In short
- CVE-2021-38561 is a HIGH (CVSS 7.5) vulnerability affecting golang.org/x/text, text (golang).
- Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 1.5%, higher than 74.0% of all vulnerabilities.
- Fix: update to 0.3.7 or later.
Description
golang.org/x/text/language in golang.org/x/text before 0.3.7 can panic with an out-of-bounds read during BCP 47 language tag parsing. Index calculation is mishandled. If parsing untrusted user input, this can be used as a vector for a denial-of-service attack.
NVD description
golang.org/x/text/language in golang.org/x/text before 0.3.7 can panic with an out-of-bounds read during BCP 47 language tag parsing. Index calculation is mishandled. If parsing untrusted user input, this can be used as a vector for a denial-of-service attack.
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