remove G113. It only affects old/unsupported versions of Go (#1328)

niij · ccoVeille · web-flow · commit 1336dc682085 · 2025-04-03T16:44:20.000+02:00
* don't warn on G113 (big.Rat SetString) if on an unaffected version of Go Newer versions of go (>=1.16.14, >=1.17.7, 1.18+) are not affected by this. Don't warn at all on those newer versions. See https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2022-23772 * alert on all known versions Co-authored-by: ccoVeille <3875889+ccoVeille@users.noreply.github.com> * remove G113 CVE-2022-23772 which only affects old/unsupport Go versions * Retire rule * gofmt --------- Co-authored-by: ccoVeille <3875889+ccoVeille@users.noreply.github.com>
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
@@ -138,7 +138,6 @@ directory you can supply `./...` as the input argument.
 - G110: Potential DoS vulnerability via decompression bomb
 - G111: Potential directory traversal
 - G112: Potential slowloris attack
-- G113: Usage of Rat.SetString in math/big with an overflow (CVE-2022-23772)
 - G114: Use of net/http serve function that has no support for setting timeouts
 - G115: Potential integer overflow when converting between integer types
 - G201: SQL query construction using format string
@@ -172,6 +171,7 @@ directory you can supply `./...` as the input argument.
 ### Retired rules
 
 - G105: Audit the use of math/big.Int.Exp - [CVE is fixed](https://github.com/golang/go/issues/15184)
+- G113: Usage of Rat.SetString in math/big with an overflow (CVE-2022-23772). This affected Go <1.16.14 and Go <1.17.7, which are no longer supported by gosec. 
 - G307: Deferring a method which returns an error - causing more inconvenience than fixing a security issue, despite the details from this [blog post](https://www.joeshaw.org/dont-defer-close-on-writable-files/)
 
 ### Selecting rules
diff --git a/issue/issue.go b/issue/issue.go
@@ -65,7 +65,6 @@ var ruleToCWE = map[string]string{
 	"G110": "409",
 	"G111": "22",
 	"G112": "400",
-	"G113": "190",
 	"G114": "676",
 	"G115": "190",
 	"G201": "89",
diff --git a/report/formatter_test.go b/report/formatter_test.go
@@ -278,11 +278,40 @@ var _ = Describe("Formatter", func() {
 	})
 	Context("When using different report formats", func() {
 		grules := []string{
-			"G101", "G102", "G103", "G104", "G106", "G107", "G109",
-			"G110", "G111", "G112", "G113", "G201", "G202", "G203",
-			"G204", "G301", "G302", "G303", "G304", "G305", "G401",
-			"G402", "G403", "G404", "G405", "G406", "G407", "G501",
-			"G502", "G503", "G504", "G505", "G506", "G507", "G601",
+			"G101",
+			"G102",
+			"G103",
+			"G104",
+			"G106",
+			"G107",
+			"G109",
+			"G110",
+			"G111",
+			"G112",
+			"G201",
+			"G202",
+			"G203",
+			"G204",
+			"G301",
+			"G302",
+			"G303",
+			"G304",
+			"G305",
+			"G401",
+			"G402",
+			"G403",
+			"G404",
+			"G405",
+			"G406",
+			"G407",
+			"G501",
+			"G502",
+			"G503",
+			"G504",
+			"G505",
+			"G506",
+			"G507",
+			"G601",
 		}
 
 		It("csv formatted report should contain the CWE mapping", func() {
diff --git a/rules/math_big_rat.go b/rules/math_big_rat.go
diff --git a/rules/rulelist.go b/rules/rulelist.go
@@ -75,7 +75,6 @@ func Generate(trackSuppressions bool, filters ...RuleFilter) RuleList {
 		{"G110", "Detect io.Copy instead of io.CopyN when decompression", NewDecompressionBombCheck},
 		{"G111", "Detect http.Dir('/') as a potential risk", NewDirectoryTraversal},
 		{"G112", "Detect ReadHeaderTimeout not configured as a potential risk", NewSlowloris},
-		{"G113", "Usage of Rat.SetString in math/big with an overflow", NewUsingOldMathBig},
 		{"G114", "Use of net/http serve function that has no support for setting timeouts", NewHTTPServeWithoutTimeouts},
 
 		// injection
diff --git a/rules/rules_test.go b/rules/rules_test.go
@@ -103,10 +103,6 @@ var _ = Describe("gosec rules", func() {
 			runner("G112", testutils.SampleCodeG112)
 		})
 
-		It("should detect potential uncontrolled memory consumption in Rat.SetString", func() {
-			runner("G113", testutils.SampleCodeG113)
-		})
-
 		It("should detect uses of net/http serve functions that have no support for setting timeouts", func() {
 			runner("G114", testutils.SampleCodeG114)
 		})
diff --git a/testutils/g113_samples.go b/testutils/g113_samples.go
