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🛡️ GHSA-4rv7-wj6m-6c6r — woodstox-core (CVE-2022-40156)

🟢 CVSS 2.0 — Low ✅ No Known Exploit OSV
2.0
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

Denial of Service due to parser crash

Withdrawn

This advisory has been withdrawn because it has been found to be a duplicate. Please see the issue [here](https://github.com/x-stream/xstream/issues/304#issuecomment-1293654236) for more information.

Original Despcription

Those using FasterXML/woodstox to seralize XML data may be vulnerable to Denial of Service attacks (DOS). 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.

This vulnerability is only relevant for users making use of the DTD parsing functionality.

Affected software

GHSA-4rv7-wj6m-6c6r is recorded against 1 package.

  • com.fasterxml.woodstox:woodstox-core (fixed in 5.4.0)

Timeline and source

Published on 17 September 2022 and last revised on 3 December 2024. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

nvd.nist.gov (Advisory)
github.com (Web)
github.com (Web)
github.com (Web)
github.com (Web)
bugs.chromium.org (Web)
github.com (Package)

Details

Severity LOW
CVSS Score 2.0
CVSS Vector N/A
CWE N/A
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2022-09-17
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2024-12-03
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
com.fasterxml.woodstox:woodstox-core — 5.4.0

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