CVE-2020-14040

HighCVSS 7.5/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

Description

The x/text package before 0.3.3 for Go has a vulnerability in encoding/unicode that could lead to the UTF-16 decoder entering an infinite loop, causing the program to crash or run out of memory. An attacker could provide a single byte to a UTF16 decoder instantiated with UseBOM or ExpectBOM to trigger an infinite loop if the String function on the Decoder is called, or the Decoder is passed to golang.org/x/text/transform.String.

Metrics

CVSS 3.1 7.5/10CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Weakness enumeration

CWE-835

Affected software

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	n/a

References

Timeline

Published: Jun 17, 2020
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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