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CVE-2022-40152GHSA-3F7H-MF4Q-VRM4

Stack Buffer Overflow in Woodstox

Published
Last modified
published
Not listed in CISA KEV
Fix
Fixed in 6.4.0, 5.4.0
None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub
  • Exploitation: poc
  • Automatable: no
  • Technical impact: partial

Summary

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.

Timeline

  1. CVE published
  2. CISA SSVC assessment

    Exploitation: poc · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial

  3. Record last updated
  4. EPSS reached 10%

    FIRST estimates at least a 10% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Affected versions

  • xstream Woodstox

    fixed in 6.4.0; fixed in 5.4.0

  • com.fasterxml.woodstox:woodstox-coreMaven

    From 6.0.0 · fixed in 6.4.0

  • com.fasterxml.woodstox:woodstox-coreMaven

    fixed in 5.4.0

References 2

GitHub · x-stream/xstream

bugs.chromium.org