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Denial of Service due to parser crash

Moderate severity GitHub Reviewed Published Sep 17, 2022 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Jul 5, 2023

Package

maven com.fasterxml.woodstox:woodstox-core (Maven)

Affected versions

>= 6.0.0, < 6.4.0
< 5.4.0

Patched versions

6.4.0
5.4.0

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.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Sep 16, 2022
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Sep 17, 2022
Reviewed Sep 20, 2022
Last updated Jul 5, 2023

Severity

Moderate

CVSS overall score

This score calculates overall vulnerability severity from 0 to 10 and is based on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
/ 10

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
Low
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector: More severe the more the remote (logically and physically) an attacker can be in order to exploit the vulnerability.
Attack complexity: More severe for the least complex attacks.
Privileges required: More severe if no privileges are required.
User interaction: More severe when no user interaction is required.
Scope: More severe when a scope change occurs, e.g. one vulnerable component impacts resources in components beyond its security scope.
Confidentiality: More severe when loss of data confidentiality is highest, measuring the level of data access available to an unauthorized user.
Integrity: More severe when loss of data integrity is the highest, measuring the consequence of data modification possible by an unauthorized user.
Availability: More severe when the loss of impacted component availability is highest.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

EPSS score

0.768%
(81st percentile)

Weaknesses

No CWEs

CVE ID

CVE-2022-40152

GHSA ID

GHSA-3f7h-mf4q-vrm4

Source code

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