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.
CVE-2022-28131
Score 7.5 from GitHub Security Advisory (severity: HIGH) published 2022-08-11. NVD baseline CVSS 7.5; sources differ by 0.0.
- High severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet
A fix is available — apply it.
- CVSS v3
- 7.5
- EG Score
- 7.5(medium)
- EG Risk
- 39(Track)EG Risk 39/100SSVC: Track
EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score: it fuses intrinsic severity with real-world exploitation and automatability so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner. Distinct from the 0–10 EG Score (severity).
How it’s computedSeverity75% × 45%Exploitation2% × 40%Automatability30% × 15%Action: Routine — remediate on your standard cadence. - EPSS
- 77.3%
- KEV
- Not listed
Published
August 10, 2022
Last Modified
November 21, 2024
References (10)
- security@golanghttps://go.dev/cl/417062
- security@golanghttps://go.dev/issue/53614
- security@golanghttps://go.googlesource.com/go/+/08c46ed43d80bbb67cb904944ea3417989be4af3
- security@golanghttps://groups.google.com/g/golang-announce/c/nqrv9fbR0zE
- security@golanghttps://pkg.go.dev/vuln/GO-2022-0521
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://go.dev/cl/417062
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://go.dev/issue/53614
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://go.googlesource.com/go/+/08c46ed43d80bbb67cb904944ea3417989be4af3
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://groups.google.com/g/golang-announce/c/nqrv9fbR0zE
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://pkg.go.dev/vuln/GO-2022-0521
Vendor Advisories for CVE-2022-28131(20)
These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.
- RHSA-2023:3642Red Hat Product SecurityHigh
Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat Ceph Storage 6.1 Container security and bug fix update
- RHSA-2023:2802Red Hat Product SecurityMedium
Red Hat Security Advisory: container-tools:4.0 security and bug fix update
- RHSA-2023:2758Red Hat Product SecurityMedium
Red Hat Security Advisory: container-tools:rhel8 security, bug fix, and enhancement update
- RHSA-2023:1042Red Hat Product SecurityMedium
Red Hat Security Advisory: Custom Metrics Autoscaler Operator for Red Hat OpenShift (with security updates)
- RHSA-2023:0408Red Hat Product SecurityHigh
Red Hat Security Advisory: OpenShift Virtualization 4.12.0 Images security update
- RHSA-2023:0407Red Hat Product SecurityMedium
Red Hat Security Advisory: OpenShift Virtualization 4.12.0 RPMs security update
- RHSA-2022:9047Red Hat Product SecurityMedium
Red Hat Security Advisory: Migration Toolkit for Containers (MTC) 1.7.6 security and bug fix update
- RHSA-2022:8057Red Hat Product SecurityHigh
Red Hat Security Advisory: grafana security, bug fix, and enhancement update
- +12 more
Patch Availability(21)
Patches are aggregated from vendor advisories (Red Hat, Microsoft, Cisco, GitHub) and package ecosystems (OSV, GHSA). Multiple rows for the same upstream release have been deduplicated.
Affected Packages
(1 across 1 ecosystem)
Go(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fixed in | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| stdlib | — | 1.18.4 | — |
Weakness Classification(1)
MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.
Additional Vendor Advisories
(7)
Vendors that published advisories for this CVE beyond the curated set above. Broader coverage but minimal per-row detail — click through for the original advisory.
- Microsoft MSRCCVE-2022-281312022-08-16
Stack exhaustion from deeply nested XML documents in encoding/xml
- Red HatRHSA-2022:5775MODERATE2022-07-12
RHSA-2022:5775 — Moderate
- Red HatRHSA-2022:5799MODERATE2022-07-12
RHSA-2022:5799 — Moderate
- Red HatRHSA-2022:5866MODERATE2022-07-12
RHSA-2022:5866 — Moderate
- Red HatRHSA-2022:6042MODERATE2022-07-12
RHSA-2022:6042 — Moderate
- UbuntuUSN-6038-1MEDIUM
Go vulnerabilities
- UbuntuUSN-6038-2MEDIUM
Go vulnerabilities
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