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CVE-2022-30633

Stack exhaustion when unmarshaling certain documents in encoding/xml

Published: Aug 9, 2022Updated: Mar 6, 2026 Sources: CVE List NVDCWE-674
7.5HIGH
NVD MITRE
EPSS Score
1.9%
Top 21.8%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploits
No Known Exploits
Remediation
Patch Available
Self-Check
OpenVAS

Description

Uncontrolled recursion in Unmarshal 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 unmarshalling an XML document into a Go struct which has a nested field that uses the 'any' field tag.

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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

Go standard library
oss-project·USaka crypto/x509, golang standard library, net/http, html/template
encoding/xmlLibraryLibrary
OSS Libraries / generic-library
golang
oss-project·US
go
OSS Libraries

Exploitability

Official Patch Available
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MITRE ATT&CK

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References

https://go.dev/cl/417061
go.dev
https://go.googlesource.com/go/+/c4c1993fd2a5b26fe45c09592af6d3388a3b2e08
go.googlesource.com
https://go.dev/issue/53611
go.dev
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