CVE-2022-28131 Stack exhaustion from deeply nested XML documents in encoding/xml

2022-08-0900:00:00

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stack exhaustion

xml documents

encoding/xml

uncontrolled recursion

decoder.skip

go 1.17.12

go 1.18.4

panic

attack

7.9 High

AI Score

Confidence

High

0.002 Low

EPSS

Percentile

56.2%

JSON

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.

CNA Affected

[
  {
    "vendor": "Go standard library",
    "product": "encoding/xml",
    "collectionURL": "https://pkg.go.dev",
    "packageName": "encoding/xml",
    "versions": [
      {
        "version": "0",
        "lessThan": "1.17.12",
        "status": "affected",
        "versionType": "semver"
      },
      {
        "version": "1.18.0-0",
        "lessThan": "1.18.4",
        "status": "affected",
        "versionType": "semver"
      }
    ],
    "programRoutines": [
      {
        "name": "Decoder.Skip"
      }
    ],
    "defaultStatus": "unaffected"
  }
]