CVE-2024-45338: medium-severity vulnerability in golang.org/x/net/html
Non-linear parsing of case-insensitive content in golang.org/x/net/html
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13Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 5.3epss 1.1%
An attacker can craft an input to the Parse functions that would be processed non-linearly with respect to its length, resulting in extremely slow parsing. This could cause a denial of service.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
Affected products
golang.org/x/net · golang.org/x/net/htmlRelated CVEs — golang.org/x/net/html
In the same product, most dangerous first.
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