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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Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


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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
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 6.5, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H'}


cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: GitHub_M

Published:

Updated: 2026-06-01T18:14:04.315Z

Reserved: 2026-05-07T18:04:17.310Z

Link: CVE-2026-44740

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2026-06-01T18:14:00.446Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2026-06-01T17:17:08.277

Modified: 2026-06-01T18:53:33.870

Link: CVE-2026-44740

cve-icon Redhat

No data.

cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

Updated: 2026-06-01T19:45:19Z