CVE-2026-78663

critical

Description

The HTTP/2 server can refund connection-level flow control twice for the same data: Once when a client resets a stream (refunding data for any sent-but-unread portion of the stream), and again when a request handler reads the buffered data. A malicious client can exploit this to bypass the configured connection-level flow control limit (MaxReceiveBufferPerConnection). Total buffered data is still limited by the concurrent stream limit and stream-level flow control.

References

https://pkg.go.dev/vuln/GO-2026-6612

https://groups.google.com/g/golang-announce/c/ZPwCyRUuGBs

https://groups.google.com/g/golang-announce/c/U2fTuyDJznI

https://go.dev/issue/81743

https://go.dev/cl/847310

https://go.dev/cl/847187

https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2026-95427

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2026-10-08

Updated: 2026-10-09

Named Vulnerability: GO-2026-6612

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 9.4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:C/A:C

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 9.1

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H

Severity: Critical

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00248