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encoding/xml

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CVE-2026-56859

Add recursion depth guard during decode in encoding/xml

Previously, DecodeElement would reset the depth counter causing it to never fire; this could lead to stack exhaustion.

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Aug 13, 2026
High 7.5

CVE-2022-30633

Stack exhaustion when unmarshaling certain documents in encoding/xml

Uncontrolled recursion in Unmarshal in encoding/xml before Go 1.17.12 and Go 1.18.4 allows an attacker to cause a panic due to stack exhaustion via unmarshalling an XML document into a Go struct which has a nested field that uses the 'any' field tag.

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Aug 9, 2022