Medium
Invoking denial of service when parsing arbitrary HTML in golang.org/x/net/html
Type: advisorySources: OSV
Parsing arbitrary HTML can consume excessive CPU time, possibly leading to denial of service.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2026-25680
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 7 Nov 2026, 13:22 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
Invoking denial of service when parsing arbitrary HTML in golang.org/x/net/html
core-osv · Original sourcePublished 22 May 2026, 15:01 UTC
Parsing arbitrary HTML can consume excessive CPU time, possibly leading to denial of service.
osv:CVE-2026-25680
Complete source record
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