CVEs-PoC/2021/CVE-2021-27918.md

### [CVE-2021-27918](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-27918)
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### Description

encoding/xml in Go before 1.15.9 and 1.16.x before 1.16.1 has an infinite loop if a custom TokenReader (for xml.NewTokenDecoder) returns EOF in the middle of an element. This can occur in the Decode, DecodeElement, or Skip method.

### POC

#### Reference
- https://groups.google.com/g/golang-announce/c/MfiLYjG-RAw

#### Github
- https://github.com/ARPSyndicate/cvemon
- https://github.com/henriquebesing/container-security
- https://github.com/kb5fls/container-security
- https://github.com/ruzickap/malware-cryptominer-container