CVE-2020-14040 — Infinite Loop in X Text
Severity
7.5HIGHNVD
EPSS
0.0%
top 99.36%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedJun 17
Latest updateFeb 16
Description
The x/text package before 0.3.3 for Go has a vulnerability in encoding/unicode that could lead to the UTF-16 decoder entering an infinite loop, causing the program to crash or run out of memory. An attacker could provide a single byte to a UTF16 decoder instantiated with UseBOM or ExpectBOM to trigger an infinite loop if the String function on the Decoder is called, or the Decoder is passed to golang.org/x/text/transform.String.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 3.9 | Impact: 3.6
🔴Vulnerability Details
6📋Vendor Advisories
3💬Community
3Bugzilla▶
CVE-2020-14040 golang: golang.org/x/text: possibility to trigger an infinite loop in encoding/unicode could lead to crash [epel-all]↗2020-07-03
Bugzilla▶
CVE-2020-14040 golang: golang.org/x/text: possibility to trigger an infinite loop in encoding/unicode could lead to crash [fedora-all]↗2020-07-03
Bugzilla▶
CVE-2020-14040 golang.org/x/text: possibility to trigger an infinite loop in encoding/unicode could lead to crash↗2020-07-03