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CVE-2018-17075

25
FAUCET Score

CVE-2018-17075 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in the Go html package (x/net/html) prior to 2018-07-13, affecting products like Fedora and GoLang. Parsing specific HTML structures, such as <template><object>, can trigger a runtime panic, leading to a denial of service. With a CVSS score of 7.5 (High), this vulnerability is easily exploitable over the network with low complexity, requiring no user interaction or privileges, and primarily impacts availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 2018-07-12CPE 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
2.77%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
84.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0277 is in the 73rd percentile among its peer group of 51,551 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 (2)

github_advisorypatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
gopatch availablevia ghsa
Product: golang.org/x/netFixed in: 0.0.0-20180816102801-aaf60122140d

Vendor Advisories (2)

goGHSA-5p4h-3377-7w67high

golang.org/x/net/html NULL Pointer Dereference vulnerability

May 13, 2022
redhatCVE-2018-17075Moderate

golang-org-x-net-html: Mishandle of "in frameset" causes runtime panic in html.Parse() via crafted html

Sep 26, 2018

References

bugs.chromium.org / p/chromium/issues/detail
ExploitThird Party Advisory
github.com / golang/go/issues/27016
ExploitThird Party Advisory
github.com / golang/net/commit/aaf60122140d3fcf75376d319f0554393160eb50
PatchThird Party 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