CVE-2022-40152

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.

Affected Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
xstreamWoodstoxunspecified < 6.4.0affected
xstreamWoodstoxunspecified < 5.4.0affected

Weaknesses

  • CWE-121: CWE-121 Stack-based Buffer Overflow

ADP Enrichment

CVE Program Container

Additional References

CISA ADP Vulnrichment

  • SSVC:
  • Exploitation: poc
    • Automatable: no
    • Technical Impact: partial

References