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CVE-2018-17846

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2018-10-01 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-835

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.

Affected products

• Fedoraproject Fedora: 28, 29
• golang.org/x/net/html: through 2018-09-25

References

• https://github.com/golang/go/issues/27842
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/LREEWY6KNLHRWFZ7OT4HVLMVVCGGUHON/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/UKRCI7WIOCOCD3H7NXWRGIRABTQOZOBK/
• https://github.com/golang/go/issues/27842
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/LREEWY6KNLHRWFZ7OT4HVLMVVCGGUHON/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/UKRCI7WIOCOCD3H7NXWRGIRABTQOZOBK/

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