CVSS 3.1
7.5 highCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HCVE-2021-27918
High (7.5) in golang go. EPSS 2.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. Fixed in stdlib 1.15.9, 1.16.1.
encoding/xml in Go before 1.15.9 and 1.16.x before 1.16.1 has an infinite loop if a custom TokenReader (for xml.NewTokenDecoder) returns EOF in the middle of an element. This can occur in the Decode, DecodeElement, or Skip method.
Severity
- EPSS
- 2.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 84% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-835
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- golang:go
Packages (OSV)
| Advisory | Ecosystem | Package | Affected | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GO-2021-0234 | Go | stdlib | <1.15.9 >=1.16.0-0 <1.16.1 | 1.15.9, 1.16.1 |