CVE-2020-29510

Published: Dec 14, 2020

Modified: Sep 16, 2024

PUBLISHED

CVSS v3.1

9.8

CRITICAL

Description

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.

Vendor	Product	Versions
Golang	Go	affected `unspecified - <= 1.15`

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-115

CVSS v3.1 Details

CVSS v3.1 Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

None

User Interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

High

Integrity

High

Availability

High

References

https://github.com/mattermost/xml-roundtrip-validator/blob/master/advisories/unstable-directives.md

x_refsource_MISC

https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210129-0006/

x_refsource_CONFIRM

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CVE-2020-29510

Description

Affected Products

Weaknesses (CWE)

CVSS v3.1 Details

References