CVE-2022-28131
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.
Does this matter?
High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (2.56%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.
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.
- CVSS 3.1
- 7.5 HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- EPSS
- 2.56% probability · 85th percentile
- Public exploits
- None in Exploit-DB
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-674
- Affected
- golang/go · fedoraproject/fedora · netapp/cloud insights telegraf
- Source
- security@golang.org
EPSS 2.6% since 26 October 2026; no change recorded yet. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.
References
- 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
- 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
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.