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CVE

CVE-2022-40152

Denial of Service due to parser crash

Description

Those using FasterXML/woodstox to seralize XML data may be vulnerable to Denial of Service attacks (DOS). 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.

This vulnerability is only relevant for users making use of the DTD parsing functionality.

Base CVSS

7.5

EPSS Score

0.52%

Introduced Version

5.0.0

Fix Available

5.4.0,6.4.0

Fix without Upgrading

Available Patches

Package

CVEs Fixed

Lines of Code Changed

Package Name

com.fasterxml.woodstox:woodstox-core

com.fasterxml.woodstox:woodstox-core

References

https://github.com/FasterXML/woodstox/pull/159

https://github.com/FasterXML/woodstox

https://github.com/x-stream/xstream/issues/304

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=47434

https://github.com/FasterXML/woodstox/issues/157

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-40152

https://github.com/FasterXML/woodstox/issues/160

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