Inefficient Algorithmic Complexity Affecting github.com/golang/net/html package, versions <0.55.0
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- published24 May 2026
- disclosed22 May 2026
- creditIPC Labs
Introduced: 22 May 2026
NewCVE-2026-25680 Â (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
Upgrade github.com/golang/net/html to version 0.55.0 or higher.
Overview
github.com/golang/net/html is a package that implements an HTML5-compliant tokenizer and parser.
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Inefficient Algorithmic Complexity in parse.go, when checking attributes iteratively. An attacker can cause excessive CPU consumption by providing malicious HTML input.