7.5

CVE-2022-28131: Stack exhaustion from deeply nested XML documents in encoding/xml

Modified
AliasesUBUNTU-CVE-2022-28131DEBIAN-CVE-2022-28131GO-2022-0521
Published 09-08-2022Last modified 03-08-2024

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2022-28131 is a high (CVSS 7.5) Uncontrolled Recursion vulnerability in fedoraproject fedora. EPSS estimates a 2.56% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 85.1% of scored vulnerabilities.

Priority
Prioritisesevere

Severe, CVSS 7.5 (NVD); no exploitation reported by the 5 checked sources; EPSS 3% (FIRST, 03-11-2026)

Source freshness unavailable

How is this decided?
CVSS score
7.5/10
010
High · v3.1 (NVD)
EPSS score
2.56%
0%100%
Low · +0.14 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedNot listed by any tracked catalog.
RansomwareNot flaggedNo ransomware use recorded.
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 19 · Related 7
MGASA-2022-0262OPENSUSE-SU-2024:12189-1OPENSUSE-SU-2024:12190-1RHSA-2022:5775RHSA-2022:5799RHSA-2022:5866

Timeline

  1. 09-08-2022
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 03-08-2024
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

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

4 scores · 4 sources · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

2.56%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

85%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

Increase +0.14 pp

From 2.42% on 04-10-2026

04-10-202603-11-2026

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs
CISA KEV

Not in the CISA KEV catalog.

ENISA CNW

Not in the ENISA CNW catalog.

CIRCL

Not in the CIRCL catalog.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Version check

Known conditions: network-reachable, no authentication, no user interaction (CVSS vector). Other conditions: not stated in public data.

Ubuntu3 products
  • golang-1.13< 1.13.8-1ubuntu1~16.04.3+esm3 | < 1.13.8-1ubuntu1~18.04.4+esm1 | < 1.13.8-1ubuntu1.2 | < 1.13.8-1ubuntu2.22.04.2
  • golang-1.16< 1.16.2-0ubuntu1~18.04.2+esm1 | < 1.16.2-0ubuntu1~20.04.1
  • golang-1.18< 1.18.1-1ubuntu1~18.04.4 | < 1.18.1-1ubuntu1~20.04.2 | < 1.18.1-1ubuntu1.1
Alpine1 product
  • go≥ 1.18.0, < 1.18.4-r0
Debian1 product
  • golang-1.15All versions (No fix recorded)
Fedoraproject1 product
Go1 product
  • stdlib≥ 1.18.0-0, < 1.18.4
Go standard library1 product
Golang1 product
  • go< 1.17.12 | ≥ 1.18.0, < 1.18.4
Netapp1 product

8 vendors · 10 products

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