CVE-2020-29509

medium
Published 2022-02-11 · Modified 2026-02-04
CVSS v3
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v2
VIR risk
5.5

Description

The encoding/xml package in Go (all versions) does not correctly preserve the semantics of attribute namespace prefixes during tokenization round-trips, which allows an attacker to craft inputs that behave in conflicting ways during different stages of processing in affected downstream applications.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
30%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2020-29509

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-29509.html

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
arch archfixed2:1.17-1
suse slesaffected
debian debianbullseyeaffected

Package impact

EcosystemPackageVulnerableFixed
golang Gogithub.com/russellhaering/gosaml2<0.6.00.6.0

References

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.