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CVE-2024-45338 (GCVE-0-2024-45338)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-12-18 20:38 – Updated: 2025-02-21 18:03
VLAI
Title
Non-linear parsing of case-insensitive content in golang.org/x/net/html
Summary
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.
Severity
5.3 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: yes Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2024-12-31 19:51 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-405 - Asymmetric Resource Consumption (Amplification)
  • CWE-1333 - Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
golang.org/x/net golang.org/x/net/html Affected: 0 , < 0.33.0 (semver)
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Credits
Guido Vranken
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