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CVE-2022-28131 (GCVE-0-2022-28131)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-08-09 00:00 – Updated: 2024-08-03 05:48
VLAI
Title
Stack exhaustion from deeply nested XML documents in encoding/xml
Summary
Uncontrolled recursion in Decoder.Skip in encoding/xml before Go 1.17.12 and Go 1.18.4 allows an attacker to cause a panic due to stack exhaustion via a deeply nested XML document.
Severity
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Go standard library encoding/xml Affected: 0 , < 1.17.12 (semver)
Affected: 1.18.0-0 , < 1.18.4 (semver)
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Credits
Go Security Team Juho Nurminen of Mattermost
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