CVE-2023-22460 — go-ipld-prime is an implementation of the InterPlanetary Linked Data (IPLD) spec

go-ipld-prime is an implementation of the InterPlanetary Linked Data (IPLD) spec interfaces, a batteries-included codec implementations of IPLD for CBOR and JSON, and tooling for basic operations on IPLD objects. Encoding data which contains a Bytes kind Node will pass a Bytes to

01What is this vulnerability?

go-ipld-prime is an implementation of the InterPlanetary Linked Data (IPLD) spec interfaces, a batteries-included codec implementations of IPLD for CBOR and JSON, and tooling for basic operations on IPLD objects. Encoding data which contains a Bytes kind Node will pass a Bytes token to the JSON encoder which will panic as it doesn't expect to receive Bytes tokens. Such an encode should be treated…

02Affected products

No structured affected-product list available — see references below for vendor advisories.

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

• Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
• Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
• Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

• Published: 2023-01-04T15:15:09.437
• Last modified: 2026-08-27T04:16:39.520

09References

• github.com — https://github.com/ipld/go-ipld-prime/pull/472
• github.com — https://github.com/ipld/go-ipld-prime/releases/tag/v0.19.0
• github.com — https://github.com/ipld/go-ipld-prime/security/advisories/GHSA-c653-6hhg-9x92
• www.openwall.com — http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/08/27/1
• github.com — https://github.com/ipld/go-ipld-prime/pull/472
• github.com — https://github.com/ipld/go-ipld-prime/releases/tag/v0.19.0
• github.com — https://github.com/ipld/go-ipld-prime/security/advisories/GHSA-c653-6hhg-9x92