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CVE-2022-40152

Published: Sep 16, 2022

Modified: Apr 21, 2025

PUBLISHED

CVSS v3.1

6.5

MEDIUM

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.

VendorProductVersions

xstream

Woodstox

affected
unspecified - < 6.4.0
affected
unspecified - < 5.4.0

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-121

CVSS v3.1 Details

CVSS v3.1 Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

Low

User Interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

None

Integrity

None

Availability

High

References

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