CVE-2026-44740 (GCVE-0-2026-44740)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-06-01 16:04 – Updated: 2026-06-01 18:14
VLAI
Title
go-billy: Lack of depth and cycle detection in symlink resolution may lead to infinite loops and resource exhaustion
Summary
Billy is an interface filesystem abstraction for Go. Prior to versions 5.9.0 and 6.0.0-alpha.1, multiple components may improperly handle crafted or malformed input, resulting in panics, infinite loops, uncontrolled recursion, or excessive resource consumption. These issues arise from insufficient validation and missing safety mechanisms such as cycle detection, recursion limits, or defensive handling of unexpected states when processing untrusted repository data and filesystem structures. This issue has been patched in versions 5.9.0 and 6.0.0-alpha.1.
Severity
6.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
  • CWE-674 - Uncontrolled Recursion
  • CWE-835 - Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop')
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
go-git go-billy Affected: < 5.9.0
Affected: < 6.0.0-alpha.1
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