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Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

CVE-2025-21614

High
7.5/10

Summary

The go-git is a highly extensible git implementation library written in pure Go. A Denial of Service (DoS) vulnerability was discovered in github.com/go-git/go-git versions 4.0.0-rc1 through 5.12.0. This vulnerability allows an attacker to perform Denial of Service (DoS) attacks by providing specially crafted responses from a Git server, which triggers resource exhaustion in go-git clients.

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
  • NONE
  • UNCHANGED
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • HIGH

CWE-400 - Uncontrolled resource consumption

An uncontrolled resource allocation attack (also known as resource exhaustion attack) triggers unauthorized overconsumption of the limited resources in an application, such as memory, file system storage, database connection pool entries, and CPU. This may lead to denial of service for valid users and degradation of the application's functionality as well as that of the host operating system.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published