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CVE-2018-17848

25
FAUCET Score

CVE-2018-17848 is a high-severity vulnerability affecting the html package (x/net/html) in Go, including its use in Fedora and Golang products. It allows an unauthenticated attacker to trigger a denial-of-service condition (panic: runtime error) by providing specially crafted HTML input containing a malformed <math><template><mn><b></template> sequence during an html.Parse call. While the CVSS score is 7.5, indicating a high impact on availability, there is currently no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 2018-09-25CPE 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 Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

7.5HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.68%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
84.2%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0268 is in the 72nd percentile among its peer group of 51,485 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (4)

gopatch availablevia ghsa
Product: golang.org/x/netFixed in: 0.0.0-20190125002852-4b62a64f59f7
github_advisoryvendor investigatingvia nvd_reference
View patch
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenStack Platform 9 (Mitaka) Operational ToolsFixed in: golang-googlecode-net
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Storage 3Fixed in: grafana

Vendor Advisories (2)

goGHSA-mv93-wvcp-7m7rhigh

golang.org/x/net/html Improper Validation of Array Index vulnerability

May 13, 2022
redhatCVE-2018-17848Moderate

golang-org-x-net-html: index out of range in (*insertionModeStack).pop in node.go causes runtime panic during html.Parse() call

Oct 1, 2018

References

github.com / golang/go/issues/27846
ExploitVendor Advisory
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/LREEWY6KNLHRWFZ7OT4HVLMVVCGGUHON
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/UKRCI7WIOCOCD3H7NXWRGIRABTQOZOBK