What is CVE-2018-17846?

CVE-2018-17846 is a high-severity vulnerability in Golang Net, classified under Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition (Infinite Loop). CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2018-10-01.

How severe is CVE-2018-17846?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.

Vulnerability in Golang Net

CVE-2018-17846

The html package (aka x/net/html) through 2018-09-25 in Go mishandles <table><math><select><mi><select></table>, leading to an infinite loop during an html.Parse call because inSelectIM and inSelectInTableIM do not comply with a specificat…

EPSS: 0.026 (83.8th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 7.5 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

Affected products

Golang Net
Fedoraproject Fedora — versions 28, 29
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-835 — Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition (Infinite Loop)

References

cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_MISC, Vendor Advisory)
cve@mitre.org (vendor-advisory, x_refsource_FEDORA)
cve@mitre.org (vendor-advisory, x_refsource_FEDORA)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2018-17846?: CVE-2018-17846 is a high-severity vulnerability in Golang Net, classified under Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition (Infinite Loop). CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2018-10-01.
How severe is CVE-2018-17846?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.