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Status published
High
CVE-2022-28131
Stack exhaustion from deeply nested XML documents in encoding/xml
Vulnerability 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.
Impact Analysis
Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.
Remediation
Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.
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Credits & Attribution
The following person or organization is credited with identifying this vulnerability, as recorded in the NVD database:
- Go Security Team
- Juho Nurminen of Mattermost
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Affected Vendor
Go standard library
View all reports →Affected Software
encoding/xml
Vulnerable Versions:
0, 1.18.0-0
Timeline
Official Publish:
August 9th, 2022
Last Modified:
August 3rd, 2024
Added to House:
July 21st, 2026
CVSS Vectors
V3:
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weaknesses (CWE)
No CWE data available
MITRE ATT&CK TTPs
No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.