CVE-2022-30633 (GCVE-0-2022-30633)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-08-09 20:16 – Updated: 2026-03-09 16:53
VLAI
Title
Stack exhaustion when unmarshaling certain documents in encoding/xml
Summary
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.
Severity
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: yes Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2026-03-09 16:53 UTC
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Vendor Product Version
Go standard library encoding/xml Affected: 0 , < 1.17.12 (semver)
Affected: 1.18.0-0 , < 1.18.4 (semver)
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