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Vulnerability IntelligenceCVE-2022-28131

CVE-2022-28131

HIGH7.5

Stack exhaustion from deeply nested XML documents in encoding/xml

Published Aug 9, 2022

Modified 1 years ago

Details

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.

References

https://go.dev/cl/417062

https://go.dev/issue/53614

https://go.googlesource.com/go/+/08c46ed43d80bbb67cb904944ea3417989be4af3

https://groups.google.com/g/golang-announce/c/nqrv9fbR0zE

https://pkg.go.dev/vuln/GO-2022-0521

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-28131

CVSS Analysis

CVSS v3.1

7.5

Exploitability

Attack Vector

NetworkAV:N

Attack Complexity

LowAC:L

Privileges Required

NonePR:N

User Interaction

NoneUI:N

Scope

Scope

UnchangedS:U

Impact

Confidentiality

NoneC:N

Integrity

NoneI:N

Availability

HighA:H

7.5/CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Ecosystems

Timeline

PublishedAug 9, 2022

ModifiedAug 3, 2024

CVE-2022-28131 | Mondoo Vulnerability Intelligence