CVE-2022-30633 — Uncontrolled Recursion in Standard Library Encoding XML

CWE-674 — Uncontrolled RecursionCWE-1325 — Improperly Controlled Sequential Memory Allocation12 documents8 sources
Severity
7.5HIGHNVD
EPSS
0.1%
top 73.52%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
2
GO Standard Library Encoding XMLGolang GO
Timeline
PublishedAug 10
Latest updateJan 9

Description

Uncontrolled recursion in Unmarshal 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 unmarshalling an XML document into a Go struct which has a nested field that uses the 'any' field tag.

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

Affected Packages2 packages

▶CVEListV5go_standard_library/encoding_xml1.18.0-0 — 1.18.4+1
▶NVDgolang/go1.18.0 — 1.18.4+1

Patches

Patch: go.dev ↗Patch: go.googlesource.com ↗Patch: go.dev ↗

🔴Vulnerability Details

6
OSV
golang-1.13, golang-1.16 vulnerabilities↗2024-01-09
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OSV
golang-1.18 vulnerabilities↗2023-04-25
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GHSA
GHSA-r9vw-mppf-3883: Uncontrolled recursion in Unmarshal in encoding/xml before Go 1↗2022-08-11
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OSV
CVE-2022-30633: Uncontrolled recursion in Unmarshal in encoding/xml before Go 1↗2022-08-10
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CVEList
Stack exhaustion when unmarshaling certain documents in encoding/xml↗2022-08-09
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📋Vendor Advisories

5
Ubuntu
Go vulnerabilities↗2024-01-09
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Ubuntu
Go vulnerabilities↗2023-04-25
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Microsoft
Stack exhaustion when unmarshaling certain documents in encoding/xml↗2022-08-09
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Red Hat
golang: encoding/xml: stack exhaustion in Unmarshal↗2022-07-12
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Debian
CVE-2022-30633: golang-1.15 - Uncontrolled recursion in Unmarshal in encoding/xml before Go 1.17.12 and Go 1.1...↗2022
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