PT-2022-25250 · Fasterxml · Fasterxml/Woodstox

Published 2022-09-16 · Updated 2022-11-25 · CVE-2022-40155

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

7.5

High

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Xstream (affected versions not specified) FasterXML/woodstox (affected versions not specified)

Description The issue allows an attacker to cause a denial of service attack by supplying content that causes the parser to crash due to a stack overflow when running on user-supplied input. This vulnerability is relevant for users making use of the DTD parsing functionality.

Recommendations For Xstream, consider disabling the DTD parsing functionality as a temporary workaround until a patch is available. For FasterXML/woodstox, restrict the use of the DTD parsing functionality to minimize the risk of exploitation. At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Exploit

Memory Corruption

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-787

Related Identifiers

CVE-2022-40155

GHSA-5HC5-C3M9-8VCJ

Affected Products

Fasterxml/Woodstox

References · 13

• 🔥 https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=50428 · Exploit
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-40155 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2022-40155 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-5hc5-c3m9-8vcj · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2022-40155 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-40155 · Security Note
• https://github.com/x-stream/xstream/issues/304 · Note
• https://github.com/FasterXML/woodstox/issues/157 · Note
• https://github.com/FasterXML/woodstox/issues/160 · Note
• https://github.com/FasterXML/woodstox · Note
• https://github.com/FasterXML/woodstox/pull/159 · Note
• https://t.me/cibsecurity/49901 · Telegram Post
• https://t.me/cvenotify/36323 · Telegram Post