Advisories for Golang/Github.com/Moby/Sys/User package

2026

github.com/moby/sys/user has a possible DoS via unbounded parsing of user and group database files

A denial-of-service (DoS) vulnerability exists in github.com/moby/sys/user before v0.4.1 when parsing specially crafted user or group database files. An attacker able to supply a malicious /etc/passwd or /etc/group-style file may cause excessive memory consumption, potentially resulting in process termination due to Out Of Memory (OOM) conditions.