CVE-2026-56852 (GCVE-0-2026-56852)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-07-21 19:18
Modified
2026-08-10 22:57
Severity ?
7.5 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
Summary
A norm.Iter can enter an infinite loop when handling input containing invalid UTF-8 bytes.
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
golang.org/x/text golang.org/x/text/unicode/norm Version: 0   ≤
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