PT-2022-25253 · Jxpath · Jxpath

Published 2022-10-06 · Updated 2022-11-21 · CVE-2022-40158

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

6.5

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions JXPath (affected versions not specified)

Description The issue concerns a potential Denial of Service (DOS) attack when using JXPath to interpret XPath. If the parser processes user-supplied input, an attacker could provide content that causes the parser to crash due to a stack overflow, potentially supporting a denial of service attack.

Recommendations At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Memory Corruption

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-787

Related Identifiers

CVE-2022-40158

GHSA-MF2H-6MG2-PX9X

Affected Products

Jxpath

References · 7

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-40158 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2022-40158 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-40158 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-mf2h-6mg2-px9x · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2022-40158 · Vendor Advisory
• https://github.com/apache/commons-jxpath · Note
• https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=47058 · Note