🛡️ CVE-2022-23437
🟡 CVSS 6.5 — Medium ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-835 NVD
6.5
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

There's a vulnerability within the Apache Xerces Java (XercesJ) XML parser when handling specially crafted XML document payloads. This causes, the XercesJ XML parser to wait in an infinite loop, which may sometimes consume system resources for prolonged duration. This vulnerability is present within XercesJ version 2.12.1 and the previous versions.

Details

Severity MEDIUM
CVSS Score 6.5
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE CWE-835
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2022-01-24
Updated 2026-06-08
Modified 2024-11-21

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
active-iq-unified-manager
agile-engineering-data-management
agile-plm
banking-deposits-and-lines-of-credit-servicing
banking-party-management
communications-asap
communications-element-manager 9.0
communications-session-report-manager 9.0
communications-session-route-manager 9.0
financial-services-analytical-applications-infrastructure 8.1.0.0 8.1.2.0
financial-services-behavior-detection-platform
financial-services-crime-and-compliance-management-studio
financial-services-enterprise-case-management
flexcube-universal-banking
global-lifecycle-management-nextgen-oui-framework
global-lifecycle-management-opatch 12.2.0.1.30
health-sciences-information-manager
ilearning
peoplesoft-enterprise-peopletools
primavera-gateway 20.12.0 20.12.8
product-lifecycle-analytics
retail-bulk-data-integration
retail-extract-transform-and-load
retail-financial-integration
retail-integration-bus
retail-merchandising-system
retail-service-backbone
weblogic-server
xerces-j 2.12.1
xerces:xercesimpl 2.12.2

References

Mailing List, Third Party Advisory http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/01/24/3
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/01/24/3

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