CVE-2020-29511

mediumpriority · track · 23EPSS 0.020 · 80 %ileDEEUUS

grimoire priorityP3 · Track

Exploitable?

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no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

1.97% (80th) EPSS

CVSS 6.8 · medium

Is it mine?

8 products

Check your exposure

Who says so?

5 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · cert_bund · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-27

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.

cvss

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

9.8

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · medium–critical · 5.1–9.8

v2.06.8mediumAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:Pprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 8.6 · impact 6.4

v3.15.6mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:Lprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 2.2 · impact 3.4

v3.19.8criticalCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hsecondary · ENISA EU

v3.19.8criticalCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hsecondary · responsibledisclosure@mattermost.comexploitability 3.9 · impact 5.9

v3.15.1mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-115US

affected products (8)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

Dell ECS <3.8.1.0all versionscert_bundDE
Dell PowerEdgeall versionscert_bundDEcpe:/h:dell:poweredge:-
IBM InfoSphere Information Serverall versionscert_bundDEcpe:/a:ibm:infosphere_information_server:-
Dell ECS< 3.8.1.0cert_bundDE
golang Go≤ All versionsenisa_euvdEU
golang go< 1.17nvdUScpe:2.3:a:golang:go:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
netapp tridentall versionsnvdUScpe:2.3:a:netapp:trident:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Bitnami golang< 1.17.0osvUSpkg:bitnami/golang

advisories (2)

Vendor and ecosystem advisories describing this.

WID-SEC-W-2024-0794Dell ECS: Mehrere SchwachstellenDeutsch2024-04-04csaf · cert_bundDE
Ein Angreifer kann mehrere Schwachstellen in Dell ECS ausnutzen, um seine Privilegien zu erweitern, beliebigen Programmcode mit Administratorrechten auszuführen, Informationen offenzulegen, Dateien zu manipulieren, einen Cross-Site-Scripting-Angriff durchzuführen, Sicherheitsvorkehrungen zu umgehen oder einen Denial of Service Zustand herbeizuführen.
BIT-golang-2020-295112024-03-06vendor · osvUS
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.

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sources

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cnnvd enisa_euvd cert_bund nvd osv NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2020-12-14modified 2026-06-17

references (9)

External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.

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