CVE-2022-40152

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    CVE-2022-40152

    Published: 16 Sept 2022Last Modified: 12 Aug 2026

    Summary: Stack Buffer Overflow in Woodstox

    Details: 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.

    References: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=47434, https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2022/40xxx/CVE-2022-40152.json, https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-40152, https://github.com/x-stream/xstream/issues/304

    Affected packages

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    Affected ranges

    Type: GIT

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -3d168dc71fe5c7e22ab3cf7d7bfd7ae87dafc9c7

    Affected versions

    woodstox-core-6.3.1
    woodstox-core-6.3.0

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
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    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
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    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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