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CVE-2022-40152

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-121 Stack-based Buffer Overflow
Publication date:
16/09/2022
Last modified:
23/05/2025

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.

Impact

Vector 3.x
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS v3.1 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 6.50 MEDIUM
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Privileges Required (PR): Low
User Interaction (UI): None
Scope (S): Unchanged
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): High

Base Score 3.x
6.50
Severity 3.x
MEDIUM

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:a:xstream:xstream:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1.4.20 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:a:fasterxml:woodstox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 5.4.0 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:a:fasterxml:woodstox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 6.0.0 (including) 6.4.0 (excluding)

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