CVE-2018-17847 is a high-severity vulnerability affecting the Go html package (x/net/html) in products like Fedora. It allows a remote attacker to trigger a denial-of-service condition (panic: runtime error) by parsing a specially crafted HTML document containing nested SVG and template tags. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 7.5, indicating a high impact on availability with low attack complexity and no user interaction required. There is currently no known active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(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 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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