CVE Catalog

CVE-2026-44740

MediumCVSS 6.5
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.30%

22th percentile - higher than 22% of all known CVEs

Summary

Vulnerability in the Billy library (Go) before versions 5.9.0 and 6.0.0-alpha.1. Multiple components improperly handle crafted input, leading to panics, infinite loops, uncontrolled recursion, or excessive resource consumption.

Risk Assessment

An attacker can cause application crashes or resource exhaustion, leading to denial of service (DoS).

Recommendation

Update the Billy library to version 5.9.0 or 6.0.0-alpha.1.

Related vulnerabilities

Original NVD description (English source)

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.

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