CVE-2018-17846

mediumpriority · track · 31EPSS 0.025 · 85 %ileDEEUUS
grimoire priorityP3 · Track
Exploitable?
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no known exploitation
Likely / severe?
2.51% (85th) EPSS
CVSS 5 · medium
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Who says so?
5 sources
cnnvd · enisa_euvd · osv · cert_bund

EPSS · scored 2026-10-27

The html package (aka x/net/html) through 2018-09-25 in Go mishandles <table><math><select><mi><select></table>, leading to an infinite loop during an html.Parse call because inSelectIM and inSelectInTableIM do not comply with a specification.

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cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

7.5
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base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · medium–high · 5–7.5

v2.05mediumAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:Pprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 10 · impact 2.9
v3.17.5highCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:Hprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 3.9 · impact 3.6
v3.17.5highCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:Hsecondary · OSV
v3.16.9mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)
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weaknesses

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CWE-835USprimaryCWE-835US
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affected products (11)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

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advisories (3)

Vendor and ecosystem advisories describing this.

  • WID-SEC-W-2022-0510IBM DB2: Mehrere SchwachstellenDeutsch2022-06-29csaf · cert_bundDE

    Ein entfernter, anonymer, authentisierter oder lokaler Angreifer kann mehrere Schwachstellen in IBM DB2 ausnutzen, um Dateien zu manipulieren, Sicherheitsmaßnahmen zu umgehen, vertrauliche Informationen offenzulegen, einen Denial-of-Service-Zustand auszulösen, willkürlichen Code mit erhöhten Rechten auszuführen, Informationen falsch darzustellen und beliebigen Code auszuführen.

  • GHSA-vfw5-hrgq-h5wfx/net/html Vulnerable to DoS During HTML Parsing2023-09-25ghsa · osvUS

    The html package (aka x/net/html) through 2018-09-25 in Go mishandles `<table><math><select><mi><select></table>`, leading to an infinite loop during an `html.Parse` call because `inSelectIM` and `inSelectInTableIM` do not comply with a specification.

  • GO-2020-0014Infinite loop due to improper handling of "select" tags in golang.org/x/net/html2021-04-14vendor · osvUS

    html.Parse does not properly handle "select" tags, which can lead to an infinite loop. If parsing user supplied input, this may be used as a denial of service vector.

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also known as (5)

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sources

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cnnvdenisa_euvdosvcert_bundnvdNVDCVE.orgMITRE
published 2018-10-01modified 2026-06-17
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references (9)

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