GHSA-3f7h-mf4q-vrm4

Denial of Service due to parser crash

At a glance

Published
Updated
CVE
CVE-2022-40152
CVSS_V3
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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.

Affected packages

PackageVersions
Maven · com.fasterxml.woodstox:woodstox-coreintroduced 6.0.0, fixed 6.4.0
Maven · com.fasterxml.woodstox:woodstox-coreintroduced 0, fixed 5.4.0

References

Sources

SourceLicence
OSV.devCC-BY 4.0 — GitHub Advisory Database