CVE-2018-17142 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in the Go html package (x/net/html) through 2018-09-17, affecting products like Fedora and Golang. This flaw, rated 7.5 HIGH, allows an unauthenticated attacker to trigger a runtime error and crash the application by providing specially crafted HTML input containing nested math and template tags. While the vulnerability has a high severity and is easily exploitable over the network, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 2018-09-17CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:golang:net:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
28CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:28:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
29CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:29:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
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