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.
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| Description | 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. | |
| Title | go-billy: Lack of depth and cycle detection in symlink resolution may lead to infinite loops and resource exhaustion | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-674 CWE-835 |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: GitHub_M
Published:
Updated: 2026-06-01T18:14:04.315Z
Reserved: 2026-05-07T18:04:17.310Z
Link: CVE-2026-44740
Updated: 2026-06-01T18:14:00.446Z
Status : Deferred
Published: 2026-06-01T17:17:08.277
Modified: 2026-06-01T18:53:33.870
Link: CVE-2026-44740
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OpenCVE Enrichment
Updated: 2026-06-01T19:45:19Z