CVEvulnerability

CVE-2022-40152

7.5 HIGH Published 2022-09-16 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Analyzed
Published
2022-09-16
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
6.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weaknesses
CWE-121, CWE-787

Description

Those using Woodstox to parse XML data may be vulnerable to Denial of Service attacks (DOS) if DTD support is enabled. If the parser is running on user supplied input, an attacker may supply content that causes the parser to crash by stackoverflow. This effect may support a denial of service attack.

Affected configurations

• xstream xstream (< 1.4.20) • fasterxml woodstox (< 5.4.0) • fasterxml woodstox (>= 6.0.0 < 6.4.0)

Related

Weakness · CWE (2)

  • CWE-121 Stack-based Buffer Overflow weakness
  • CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write weakness

References