CVE-2020-29510
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2020-12-14 19:57
Modified
2024-09-16 16:48
Severity ?
9.8 (Critical) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
The encoding/xml package in Go versions 1.15 and earlier does not correctly preserve the semantics of directives during tokenization round-trips, which allows an attacker to craft inputs that behave in conflicting ways during different stages of processing in affected downstream applications.
References
responsibledisclosure@mattermost.comhttps://github.com/mattermost/xml-roundtrip-validator/blob/master/advisories/unstable-directives.mdThird Party Advisory
responsibledisclosure@mattermost.comhttps://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210129-0006/Third Party Advisory
Impacted products
GolangGo
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