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CVE-2008-4482

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-20 Input Validation
Publication date:
08/10/2008
Last modified:
09/04/2025

Description

The XML parser in Xerces-C++ before 3.0.0 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (stack consumption and crash) via an XML schema definition with a large maxOccurs value, which triggers excessive memory consumption during validation of an XML file.

Impact

Vector 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 7.80 HIGH
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): Complete

Base Score 2.0
7.80
Severity 2.0
HIGH

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:a:apache:xerces-c\+\+:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 2.8.0 (including)
cpe:2.3:a:apache:xerces-c\+\+:1.0.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:apache:xerces-c\+\+:1.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:apache:xerces-c\+\+:1.1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:apache:xerces-c\+\+:1.2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:apache:xerces-c\+\+:1.3.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:apache:xerces-c\+\+:1.4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:apache:xerces-c\+\+:1.5.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:apache:xerces-c\+\+:1.6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:apache:xerces-c\+\+:1.7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:apache:xerces-c\+\+:2.0.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:apache:xerces-c\+\+:2.1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:apache:xerces-c\+\+:2.2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:apache:xerces-c\+\+:2.3.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:apache:xerces-c\+\+:2.4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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