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CVE-2022-28131
Stack exhaustion from deeply nested XML documents in encoding/xml
High7.5EPSS 2.6%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- Go
Description
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.
Timeline
ID reserved
By Go
- 4 months later
· 4 months later
Published
- 24 months later
· 24 months later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | High7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 2.6% · top 15% of all CVEs (8 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.5.
Weakness
- CWE-674: Uncontrolled Recursion
- CWE-674 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-674 and its CVEs
Affected products
Go standard library · encoding/xml
- affected < 1.17.12
- affected 1.18.0-0 – < 1.18.4
References (5)
- https://go.dev/cl/417062 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://go.googlesource.com/go/+/08c46ed43d80bbb67cb904944ea3417989be4af3 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://go.dev/issue/53614 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://groups.google.com/g/golang-announce/c/nqrv9fbR0zE (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://pkg.go.dev/vuln/GO-2022-0521 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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