GHSA-w4gw-w5jq-g9jh

Source

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-w4gw-w5jq-g9jh

Import Source

https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2026/02/GHSA-w4gw-w5jq-g9jh/GHSA-w4gw-w5jq-g9jh.json

JSON Data

https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/GHSA-w4gw-w5jq-g9jh

Aliases

Downstream

CGA (1246)

MINI (513)

Published

2026-02-12T22:06:13Z

Modified

2026-09-10T03:50:35Z

Severity

5.3 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L CVSS Calculator

Summary

golang.org/x/net/html has a Quadratic Parsing Complexity issue

Details

The html.Parse function in golang.org/x/net/html has quadratic parsing complexity when processing certain inputs, which can lead to Denial of Service (DoS) if an attacker provides specially crafted HTML content.

Database specific

{
    "cwe_ids":  [
        "CWE-407"
    ],
    "github_reviewed":  true,
    "github_reviewed_at":  "2026-02-12T22:06:13Z",
    "nvd_published_at":  "2026-02-05T18:16:09Z",
    "severity":  "MODERATE"
}

References

Affected packages

Go / golang.org/x/net/html

Package

Name: golang.org/x/net/html; View open source insights on deps.dev
Purl: pkg:golang/golang.org/x/net/html

Affected ranges

Type: SEMVER
Events: Introduced

0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Fixed

0.45.0

Database specific

source

"https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2026/02/GHSA-w4gw-w5jq-g9jh/GHSA-w4gw-w5jq-g9jh.json"