ALPINE-CVE-2020-29509

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Source
https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2020-29509
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/alpine/ALPINE-CVE-2020-29509.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/ALPINE-CVE-2020-29509
Upstream
Published
2020-12-14T20:15:13Z
Modified
2026-11-03T06:32:37Z
Severity
  • 5.6 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

The encoding/xml package in Go (all versions) does not correctly preserve the semantics of attribute 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.

References

Affected packages

Alpine:v3.18
go

Package

Name
go
Purl
pkg:apk/alpine/go?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
1.17-r0

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/alpine/ALPINE-CVE-2020-29509.json"
Alpine:v3.19
go

Package

Name
go
Purl
pkg:apk/alpine/go?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
1.17-r0

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/alpine/ALPINE-CVE-2020-29509.json"
Alpine:v3.20
go

Package

Name
go
Purl
pkg:apk/alpine/go?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
1.17-r0

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/alpine/ALPINE-CVE-2020-29509.json"
Alpine:v3.21
go

Package

Name
go
Purl
pkg:apk/alpine/go?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
1.17-r0

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/alpine/ALPINE-CVE-2020-29509.json"
Alpine:v3.22
go

Package

Name
go
Purl
pkg:apk/alpine/go?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
1.17-r0

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/alpine/ALPINE-CVE-2020-29509.json"
Alpine:v3.23
go

Package

Name
go
Purl
pkg:apk/alpine/go?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
1.17-r0

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/alpine/ALPINE-CVE-2020-29509.json"
Alpine:v3.24
go

Package

Name
go
Purl
pkg:apk/alpine/go?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
1.17-r0

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/alpine/ALPINE-CVE-2020-29509.json"