VulnerabilityAnalyzed
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
- https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=47434Exploit, Permissions Required, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/x-stream/xstream/issues/304Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=47434Exploit, Permissions Required, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/x-stream/xstream/issues/304Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.