CVE-2022-28131

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.

CVSS Metrics

• v3.1•HIGH•Score: 7.5CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

EPSS Trends

Current EPSS score: 0.03%• Percentile: 8%

Techniques & Countermeasures

• CWE-674•Uncontrolled Recursion

  The product does not properly control the amount of recursion that takes place, consuming excessive resources, such as allocated memory or the program stack.

Affected Systems

• fedoraproject•fedora

  35

• go standard library•encoding/xml

  < 1.17.12 | ≥ 1.18.0-0, < 1.18.4

• golang•go

  < 1.17.12 | ≥ 1.18.0, < 1.18.4

• Go•stdlib

  ≥ 1.18.0-0, < 1.18.4

• netapp•cloud_insights_telegraf

  na

References (5)

• https://go.dev/cl/417062
• https://go.googlesource.com/go/+/08c46ed43d80bbb67cb904944ea3417989be4af3
• https://go.dev/issue/53614
• https://groups.google.com/g/golang-announce/c/nqrv9fbR0zE
• https://pkg.go.dev/vuln/GO-2022-0521