CVE-2025-47911 (GCVE-0-2025-47911)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-02-05 17:48 – Updated: 2026-02-12 15:23
VLAI
Title
Quadratic parsing complexity in golang.org/x/net/html
Summary
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.
Severity
5.3 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: yes Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2026-02-12 15:23 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-400 - Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
golang.org/x/net golang.org/x/net/html Affected: 0 , < 0.45.0 (semver)
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Credits
Guido Vranken Jakub Ciolek
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