CVE-2022-28131

Stack exhaustion from deeply nested XML documents in encoding/xml

Severity Score

7.5

*CVSS v3.1

Exploit Likelihood

*EPSS

Affected Versions

*CPE

Public Exploits

*Multiple Sources

Exploited in Wild

*KEV

Decision

*SSVC

Descriptions

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.

En Decoder.Skip en encoding/xml en Go antes de 1.17.12 y 1.18.x antes de 1.18.4, el agotamiento de la pila y un pánico puede ocurrir a través de un documento XML profundamente anidado

A flaw was found in golang encoding/xml. When calling Decoder, Skip while parsing a deeply nested XML document, a panic can occur due to stack exhaustion and allows an attacker to impact system availability.

*Credits: Go Security Team, Juho Nurminen of Mattermost

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

None

User Interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

None

Integrity

None

Availability

High

Attack Vector

Local

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

None

User Interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

Low

Integrity

Low

Availability

High

* Common Vulnerability Scoring System

SSVC

Decision:-

Exploitation

Automatable

Tech. Impact

* Organization's Worst-case Scenario

Timeline

2022-03-29 CVE Reserved
2022-08-04 CVE Published
2024-03-30 EPSS Updated
2024-08-03 CVE Updated
---------- Exploited in Wild
---------- KEV Due Date
---------- First Exploit

CWE

CWE-674: Uncontrolled Recursion
CWE-1325: Improperly Controlled Sequential Memory Allocation

CAPEC

References (7)

URL	Tag	Source
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://pkg.go.dev/vuln/GO-2022-0521

URL	Date	SRC

URL	Date	SRC

URL	Date	SRC
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-28131	2023-06-15
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2107390	2023-06-15

Affected Vendors, Products, and Versions

Vendor		Product				Version		Other		Status
Vendor	Product	Version	Other	Status	<-- -->	Vendor	Product	Version	Other	Status
Golang Search vendor "Golang"		Go Search vendor "Golang" for product "Go"				< 1.17.12 Search vendor "Golang" for product "Go" and version " < 1.17.12"		-		Affected
Golang Search vendor "Golang"		Go Search vendor "Golang" for product "Go"				>= 1.18.0 < 1.18.4 Search vendor "Golang" for product "Go" and version " >= 1.18.0 < 1.18.4"		-		Affected
Fedoraproject Search vendor "Fedoraproject"		Fedora Search vendor "Fedoraproject" for product "Fedora"				35 Search vendor "Fedoraproject" for product "Fedora" and version "35"		-		Affected
Netapp Search vendor "Netapp"		Cloud Insights Telegraf Search vendor "Netapp" for product "Cloud Insights Telegraf"				-		-		Affected