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Fencer Vulns
high 7.5

CVE-2023-22460 json

go-ipld-prime json codec may panic if asked to encode bytes

published 2023-01-04 3 y ago modified 2026-08-27 2 mo ago also GHSA-c653-6hhg-9x92 , GO-2023-1269 , EUVD-2023-0438

cvss
7.5
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.2%
EPSS 1.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 67%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

go-ipld-prime is an implementation of the InterPlanetary Linked Data (IPLD) spec interfaces, a batteries-included codec implementations of IPLD for CBOR and JSON, and tooling for basic operations on IPLD objects. Encoding data which contains a Bytes kind Node will pass a Bytes token to the JSON encoder which will panic as it doesn't expect to receive Bytes tokens. Such an encode should be treated as an error, as plain JSON should not be able to encode Bytes. This only impacts uses of the `json` codec. `dag-json` is not impacted. Use of `json` as a decoder is not impacted. This issue is fixed in v0.19.0. As a workaround, one may prefer the `dag-json` codec, which has the ability to encode bytes.

Patch / fix

  • go github.com/ipld/go-ipld-prime 0.19.0
  • protocol go-ipld-prime 0.19.0

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
yes
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
19 mo ago

Exploit prediction

1.17% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 67% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
GitHub 3.1 5.9 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
go github.com/ipld/go-ipld-prime
<0.19.0
0.19.0

Affected products

  • ipld go-ipld-prime

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation

References

Sources

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