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CVE-2020-29511

NVD

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-29511

Severity

5.6

Medium

CVSS V3

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Description

The encoding/xml package in Go (all versions) does not correctly preserve the semantics of element namespace prefixes during tokenization round-trips, which allows an attacker to craft inputs that behave in conflicting ways during different stages of processing in affected downstream applications.

References

  • https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-29511

Affected packages


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