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CVE-2022-28131

Stack exhaustion from deeply nested XML documents in encoding/xml

Published: Aug 9, 2022Updated: Nov 21, 2024 Sources: CVE List NVD BDUCWE-674
7.5HIGH
NVD MITRE
EPSS Score
2.3%
Top 18.6%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploits
No Known Exploits
Remediation
Patch Available
Self-Check
OpenVAS

Description

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.

No summary for this CVE yet.

CVSS Vector Breakdown

AV:NAC:LPR:NUI:NS:UC:NI:NA:H
Exploitability
AV:NAttack Vector
Network
AC:LAttack Complexity
Low
PR:NPrivileges Required
None
UI:NUser Interaction
None
Scope
S:UScope
Unchanged
Impact
C:NConfidentiality
None
I:NIntegrity
None
A:HAvailability
High
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Weaknesses

CWE-674

Affected Products

Red Hat Inc.
commercial·USaka red hat
Red Hat Enterprise LinuxOn-premOS
Operating Systems / linux-distro
Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for KubernetesOn-prem
Operating Systems / linux-distro
OpenShift Developer Tools and ServicesOn-prem
Operating Systems / linux-distro
Go standard library
oss-project·USaka net/http, crypto/x509, golang standard library, html/template
encoding/xmlLibraryLibrary
OSS Libraries / generic-library
Сообщество свободного программного обеспечения
oss-projectaka fsf
Debian GNU/LinuxOn-premOS
Operating Systems / linux-distro
Fedora Project
oss-project·USaka fedora
FedoraOn-premOS
Operating Systems / linux-distro
The Go Project
oss-projectaka golang-google-protobuf, crypto, go
Go
OSS Libraries
golang
oss-project·US
go
OSS Libraries
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Exploitability

Official Patch Available
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MITRE ATT&CK

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References

https://go.dev/cl/417062
go.dev
https://go.googlesource.com/go/+/08c46ed43d80bbb67cb904944ea3417989be4af3
go.googlesource.com
https://go.dev/issue/53614
go.dev
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