Stack exhaustion from deeply nested XML documents in encoding/xml
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.
02 / AFFECTED SOFTWARE
Affected packages
154 explicit affected versions
03 / CONNECTIONS
Connected vulnerabilities
04 / EVIDENCE
Source records
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.
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.
Calling Decoder.Skip when parsing a deeply nested XML document can cause a panic due to stack exhaustion.
05 / REFERENCES
Further evidence
- https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2022/28xxx/CVE-2022-28131.json
- 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://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-28131
- https://pkg.go.dev
- https://pkg.go.dev/vuln/GO-2022-0521