🛡️ CVE-2018-17075 — net

🟠 CVSS 8.0 — High ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-476 OSV
8.0
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

golang.org/x/net/html NULL Pointer Dereference vulnerability

The html package (aka x/net/html) before 2018-07-13 in Go mishandles "in frameset" insertion mode, leading to a "panic: runtime error" for html.Parse of <template><object>, <template><applet>, or <template><marquee>. This is related to HTMLTreeBuilder.cpp in WebKit.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality none, integrity none, availability high.

Weakness class

CVE-2018-17075 is classified as CWE-476: NULL Pointer Dereference. A pointer that can be null is used without a check, crashing the process.

Affected software

CVE-2018-17075 is recorded against 1 package.

  • golang.org/x/net

Timeline and source

Published on 13 May 2022 and last revised on 20 May 2024. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

nvd.nist.gov (Advisory)
github.com (Web)
github.com (Web)
bugs.chromium.org (Web)
github.com (Package)
go-review.googlesource.com (Web)
go.dev (Web)
go.dev (Web)
go.googlesource.com (Web)
lists.fedoraproject.org (Web)
lists.fedoraproject.org (Web)
pkg.go.dev (Web)

Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 8.0
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE CWE-476
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2022-05-13
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2024-05-20
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
golang.org/x/net — —

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