🛡️ CVE-2026-62296

🟠 CVSS 7.5 — High ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-20 NVD
7.5
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

HAPI FHIR is a complete implementation of the HL7 FHIR standard for healthcare interoperability in Java. Prior to 6.9.11, XhtmlParser.java imposes no maximum element nesting depth, so a deeply nested text.div narrative triggers unbounded recursion between parseElementInner() and parseElement(), raising a StackOverflowError. An attacker who can submit FHIR resources containing such narratives can thus crash a parsing or validation worker thread, affecting validator services and any application that parses attacker-supplied FHIR JSON or XML. This issue is fixed in version 6.9.11.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality none, integrity none, availability high.

Weakness class

CVE-2026-62296 is classified as CWE-20: Improper Input Validation. The application accepts input without checking that it has the expected form, so malformed values reach code that assumes they are well formed.

Affected software

CVE-2026-62296 is recorded against 1 package.

  • unknown

Timeline and source

Published on 7 August 2026 and last revised on 10 August 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from NVD.

References

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Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 7.5
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE CWE-20
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2026-08-07
Updated 2026-08-11
Modified 2026-08-10
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
unknown — —

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