CVE-2020-29510
medium
CVSS v3
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CVSS v2
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VIR risk
5.5
Description
The encoding/xml package in Go versions 1.15 and earlier does not correctly preserve the semantics of directives 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
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2020-29510
Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-29510.html
OS impact
| OS | Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| arch | fixed | 2:1.17-1 | |
| sles | affected | | |
| debian | bullseye | affected | |
References
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.