CVE Catalog

CVE-2026-32288

MediumCVSS 5.5
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.29%

21th percentile - higher than 21% of all known CVEs

Summary

The tar.Reader function in Go can allocate an unbounded amount of memory when reading a maliciously crafted archive containing a large number of sparse regions encoded in the 'old GNU sparse map' format.

Risk Assessment

An attacker can cause memory exhaustion (DoS) by providing a specially crafted tar archive to an application using tar.Reader.

Recommendation

Update the Go package to a version that limits memory allocation when processing sparse maps in tar archives.

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Original NVD description (English source)

tar.Reader can allocate an unbounded amount of memory when reading a maliciously-crafted archive containing a large number of sparse regions encoded in the "old GNU sparse map" format.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS