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CVE-2022-40152

woodstox-core: woodstox to serialise XML data was vulnerable to Denial of Service attacks

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

7.5

CVSS 3.1

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Published · September 16, 2022

Updated · August 25, 2026

Description

A flaw was found in the FasterXML/woodstox package. This flaw allows an attacker to cause a denial of service (DoS) in its target via XML serialization. An attacker may benefit from the parser sending a malicious input that may cause a crash. This vulnerability is only relevant for users using the DTD parsing functionality.

CVSS score applicability

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Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 3.1 · 7.5
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CWE-787 · Out-of-bounds Write