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CVE-2022-28131

Uncontrolled recursion in Decoder.Skip in encoding/xml before Go 1.17.12 and Go 1.18.4 allows an attacker to cause a pan

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.

HIGH · CVSS 7.5 EPSS 0.00026
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  • CVSS base score ≥ 7.0
Sigma rules0 YARA rules0
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Weakness Classification

CWE-674Uncontrolled Recursion
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Affected Products & Versions

4
golang go< 1.17.12
golang go>= 1.18.0 and < 1.18.4
fedoraproject fedoraall versions
netapp cloud insights telegrafall versions
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Affected Packages

1
Language-ecosystem packages (from OSV) tied to this CVE, with the version that fixes it - the dependency-level detail NVD doesn’t carry.
Go stdlib fixed in 1.17.12, 1.18.4
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Scoring & Timeline

7.5
HIGH · CVSS v3.1 · security@golang.org
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Attack Vector
Network Adjacent Local Physical
Attack Complexity
Low High
Privileges Required
None Low High
User Interaction
None Required
Scope
Unchanged Changed
Confidentiality
None Low High
Integrity
None Low High
Availability
None Low High
Published to NVD10 Aug 2022 · 08:15 PM
CVSS VectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
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Vendor Advisories

30
suse-csafopenSUSE-SU-2024:12189-1
suse-csafopenSUSE-SU-2024:12190-1
usnUSN-6038-2
rhsaRHSA-2023:3642Important
suse-csafSUSE-SU-2023:2312-1
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References & Sources

5
Source URLs (vendor pages, mailing lists, write-ups). Exploit/PoC links are in their own section above to avoid duplication.
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
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