High (7.5). EPSS 3.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
Go before 1.17 does not properly consider extraneous zero characters at the beginning of an IP address octet, which (in some situations) allows attackers to bypass access control that is based on IP addresses, because of unexpected octal interpretation. This affects net.ParseIP and net.ParseCIDR.
Severity
CVSS 3.1
7.5 high
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
EPSS
3.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 89% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)