CVE-2018-17846

At a glance

Severity: Not available
EPSS: EPSS 2.51 % · percentile 85 (2026-10-27)
State: PUBLISHED
Published: 2018-10-01
Updated: 2024-08-05
Assigner: mitre
NVD status: Modified

Description

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.

Scores

Version	Score	Vector	Scored by
CVSS 3.1	HIGH 7.5	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H	NVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)
CVSS 2.0	MEDIUM 5.0	AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P	NVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-835

Advisories

GHSA-vfw5-hrgq-h5wf — x/net/html Vulnerable to DoS During HTML Parsing
GO-2020-0014 — Infinite loop due to improper handling of "select" tags in golang.org/x/net/html

European references

ENISA EUVD · EUVD-2023-2602
GCVE · GCVE-0-2018-17846

CERT-FR advisories

CERTFR-2022-AVI-591 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans les produits IBM · cert.ssi.gouv.fr

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

cpe:2.3:a:golang:net:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* ≤ 2018-09-25
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:28:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:29:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Affected products

Product	Versions
	affected n/a

References

Sources

Source	Licence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)	CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)	FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVD	ENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)	Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feeds	Public domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD