Medium
CVE-2020-29509 affecting package golang 1.26.7-1
Type: advisorySources: OSV
The encoding/xml package in Go (all versions) does not correctly preserve the semantics of attribute 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.
- Products
- golang
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2020-29509
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 17:43 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
CVE-2020-29509 affecting package golang 1.26.7-1
core-osv · Original sourcePublished 14 Dec 2020, 20:15 UTC
The encoding/xml package in Go (all versions) does not correctly preserve the semantics of attribute 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.
osv:AZL-78900
golang
Fixed versions: Not specified
Complete source record
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