CVE-2022-40152
Published: 16 September 2022
Summary
CVE-2022-40152 is a medium-severity Stack-based Buffer Overflow (CWE-121) vulnerability in Fasterxml Woodstox. Its CVSS base score is 6.5 (Medium).
Operationally, ranked in the top 25.5% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog; a public proof-of-concept is referenced.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2022-6677
Vulnerability 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…
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crash by stackoverflow. This effect may support a denial of service attack.
- CWE(s)
Related Threats
No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.
Affected Assets
Mitigating Controls
Likely Mitigating Controls AI
Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.
Out-of-bounds writes that corrupt control flow or inject shellcode are rendered non-executable by the same memory protections.