Vulnerability in Golang Go
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 panic due to stack exhaustion via a deeply nested XML document.
EPSS: 0.019 (76.8th 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 Go
- Go Standard Library Encoding/xml — versions 0, 1.18.0-0
- Netapp Cloud_insights_telegraf
- Fedoraproject Fedora — versions 35
Weakness classification (CWE)
Public proof-of-concept exploits
References
Frequently asked questions
- What is CVE-2022-28131?
- CVE-2022-28131 is a high-severity vulnerability in Golang Go, classified under Uncontrolled Recursion. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2022-08-10.
- How severe is CVE-2022-28131?
- High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.
- Is CVE-2022-28131 known to be exploited?
- 9 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.