Only the latest release of go-icalendar is supported with security updates.
If you discover a security vulnerability in go-icalendar, please report it responsibly. Do not open a public issue.
Email us at us@floatpane.com with:
- A description of the vulnerability
- Steps to reproduce the issue
- The potential impact
- Any suggested fixes (optional)
We will acknowledge your report within 48 hours and aim to provide a fix or mitigation plan within 7 days, depending on severity.
This policy covers the go-icalendar codebase and its official releases.
Since this library parses untrusted .ics data straight off email attachments, of particular interest:
- Parser denial-of-service — crafted calendar input that triggers panics, unbounded memory growth, or pathological CPU use in
Parse/ParseICS. - Recurrence blowups — an
RRULEthat causes runaway expansion inOccurrences/Betweendespite the iteration cap, or that bypasses it. - Injection into generated output — attendee, summary or other user-controlled fields that break out of their property in
Serialize, producing forged headers or smuggled components. - Reply confusion —
GenerateRSVPmatching the wrong attendee, leaking other attendees into a reply, or mis-settingPARTSTAT/METHOD.
Third-party dependencies (notably github.com/arran4/golang-ical) are outside our direct control, but we will work to address reported issues in them as quickly as possible.
We ask that you give us reasonable time to address the issue before disclosing it publicly. We are committed to crediting reporters in release notes (unless you prefer to remain anonymous).