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CVE-2022-40152

Those using Woodstox to parse XML data may be vulnerable to Denial of Service attacks (DOS) if DTD support is enabled.

HIGH 7.5EPSS 19.7%

Does this matter?

EPSS puts the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days at 19.7%, higher than 97% of all known CVEs. Patch or mitigate before the next change window.

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.

CVSS 3.1
7.5 HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS
19.65% probability · 97th percentile
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness
CWE-121, CWE-787
Affected
xstream/xstream · fasterxml/woodstox
Source
cve-coordination@google.com

References

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.