CVE-2026-78661 Affecting crossplane-provider-aws-ec2 package, versions <2.9.0-r6


Severity

Recommended
low

Based on default assessment until relevant scores are available.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.19% (9th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-WOLFILATEST-CROSSPLANEPROVIDERAWSEC2-21816611
  • published29 Oct 2026
  • disclosed27 Oct 2026

Introduced: 27 Oct 2026

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How to fix?

Upgrade Wolfi crossplane-provider-aws-ec2 to version 2.9.0-r6 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream crossplane-provider-aws-ec2 package and not the crossplane-provider-aws-ec2 package as distributed by Wolfi. See How to fix? for Wolfi relevant fixed versions and status.

When coalescing adjacent text nodes in addText and fosterParent, appending to an existing TextNode's Data via string concatenation (n.Data += text) reallocated and copied the accumulated string on every token. Inputs containing many short text runs separated by ignored end tags (such as "a</x>") caused O(n^2) allocations and byte copies. Accumulate coalesced text in per-node byte slices during parsing and materialize Data strings once at the end of parse.