🛡️ CVE-2018-17846 — net

🟠 CVSS 8.0 — High ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-835 OSV
8.0
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

x/net/html Vulnerable to DoS During HTML Parsing

The html package (aka x/net/html) through 2018-09-25 in Go mishandles <table><math><select><mi><select></table>, leading to an infinite loop during an html.Parse call because inSelectIM and inSelectInTableIM do not comply with a specification.

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-2018-17846 is classified as CWE-835: Infinite Loop. A loop condition can never become false for some inputs, hanging the process.

Affected software

CVE-2018-17846 is recorded against 1 package.

  • golang.org/x/net

Timeline and source

Published on 25 September 2023 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)
go-review.googlesource.com (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-835
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2023-09-25
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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