CVE-2026-56852 (GCVE-0-2026-56852)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-07-21 19:18 – Updated: 2026-08-10 22:57
VLAI
Title
Infinite loop on invalid input in golang.org/x/text
Summary
A norm.Iter can enter an infinite loop when handling input containing invalid UTF-8 bytes.
Severity
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: yes Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2026-07-23 13:26 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-835 - Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop')
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
golang.org/x/text golang.org/x/text/unicode/norm Affected: 0 , < 0.39.0 (semver)
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Credits
Viky Choi ("vikychoi" on GitHub)
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