vulnerability

Debian: CVE-2020-29511: golang-1.15 -- security update

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Dec 14, 2020
Added
May 15, 2025
Modified
Mar 30, 2026

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.

Solution

no-fix-debian-deb-package
Title
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