Vulnerabilities > CVE-2021-27918 - Infinite Loop vulnerability in Golang GO

CVSS 7.5 - HIGH

Attack vector

NETWORK

Attack complexity

LOW

Privileges required

NONE

Confidentiality impact

NONE

Integrity impact

NONE

Availability impact

HIGH

network

low complexity

golang

CWE-835

NVD

Published: 2021-03-11

Updated: 2024-11-21

Summary

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.

Vulnerable Configurations

Part	Description	Count
Application	Golang Golang GO - Golang GO 0.0.0-20201203163018-Be400Aefbc4C Golang GO 1.0 Golang GO 1.0.1 Golang GO 1.0.2 Golang GO 1.0.3 Golang GO 1.1 Golang GO 1.1.1 Golang GO 1.1.2 Golang GO 1.2 Golang GO 1.2.1 Golang GO 1.2.2 Golang GO 1.3 Golang GO 1.3.1 Golang GO 1.3.2 Golang GO 1.3.3 Golang GO 1.4 Golang GO 1.4.1 Golang GO 1.4.2 Golang GO 1.4.3 Golang GO 1.5 Golang GO 1.5.1 Golang GO 1.5.2 Golang GO 1.5.3 Golang GO 1.5.4 Golang GO 1.6 Golang GO 1.6.1 Golang GO 1.6.2 Golang GO 1.6.3 Golang GO 1.6.4 Golang GO 1.7 Golang GO 1.7.1 Golang GO 1.7.2 Golang GO 1.7.3 Golang GO 1.7.4 Golang GO 1.7.5 Golang GO 1.7.6 Golang GO 1.8 Golang GO 1.8.1 Golang GO 1.8.2 Golang GO 1.8.3 Golang GO 1.8.4 Golang GO 1.8.5 Golang GO 1.8.6 Golang GO 1.8.7 Golang GO 1.9 Golang GO 1.9.1 Golang GO 1.9.2 Golang GO 1.9.3 Golang GO 1.9.4 Golang GO 1.9.5 Golang GO 1.9.6 Golang GO 1.9.7 Golang GO 1.10 Golang GO 1.10.1 Golang GO 1.10.2 Golang GO 1.10.3 Golang GO 1.10.4 Golang GO 1.10.5 Golang GO 1.10.6 Golang GO 1.10.7 Golang GO 1.10.8 Golang GO 1.11.0 Golang GO 1.11.1 Golang GO 1.11.2 Golang GO 1.11.3 Golang GO 1.11.4 Golang GO 1.11.5 Golang GO 1.11.6 Golang GO 1.11.7 Golang GO 1.11.8 Golang GO 1.11.9 Golang GO 1.11.10 Golang GO 1.11.11 Golang GO 1.11.12 Golang GO 1.11.13 Golang GO 1.12 Golang GO 1.12.0 Golang GO 1.12.1 Golang GO 1.12.2 Golang GO 1.12.3 Golang GO 1.12.4 Golang GO 1.12.5 Golang GO 1.12.6 Golang GO 1.12.7 Golang GO 1.12.8 Golang GO 1.12.9 Golang GO 1.12.10 Golang GO 1.12.11 Golang GO 1.12.12 Golang GO 1.12.13 Golang GO 1.12.14 Golang GO 1.12.15 Golang GO 1.12.16 Golang GO 1.12.17 Golang GO 1.13 Golang GO 1.13.1 Golang GO 1.13.2 Golang GO 1.13.3 Golang GO 1.13.4 Golang GO 1.13.5 Golang GO 1.13.6 Golang GO 1.13.7 Golang GO 1.13.8 Golang GO 1.13.9 Golang GO 1.13.10 Golang GO 1.13.11 Golang GO 1.13.13 Golang GO 1.13.15 Golang GO 1.14 Golang GO 1.14.0 Golang GO 1.14.1 Golang GO 1.14.2 Golang GO 1.14.3 Golang GO 1.14.5 Golang GO 1.14.7 Golang GO 1.14.8 Golang GO 1.14.12 Golang GO 1.14.14 Golang GO 1.15 Golang GO 1.15.1 Golang GO 1.15.2 Golang GO 1.15.3 Golang GO 1.15.4 Golang GO 1.15.5 Golang GO 1.15.6 Golang GO 1.15.7 Golang GO 1.15.8 Golang GO 1.16.0	196

Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)

CWE-835 - Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop')

Summary

Vulnerable Configurations

Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)

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