Jettison parser crash by stackoverflow

published 2023-08-01 3y ago modified 2023-08-01 3y ago

cvss: 6.5; version 3.1, GitHub
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: —; no score, EPSS covers CVEs only
public exploits: 0; none known

Those using Jettison to parse untrusted XML or JSON data may be vulnerable to Denial of Service attacks (DOS). 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://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-40149 - https://github.com/jettison-json/jettison/issues/45 - https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=46538 - https://github.com/jettison-json/jettison/pull/49/files - https://github.com/jettison-json/jettison/releases/tag/jettison-1.5.1 - https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/11/msg00011.html - https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5312

Patch / fix

links 2

github.com/jettison-json/jettison#49 pull request
github.com/jettison-json/jettison/releases/tag/jettison-1.5.1 release

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CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
GitHub	3.1	6.5	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem	package	affected	fixed in
maven	com.tencyle.fixes:org.codehaus.jettison--jettison	1 listed version	no fix listed

Classification

Weakness

CWE-121 Stack-based Buffer Overflow
CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write

References

Sources

GitHub Advisory GHSA-xqcq-j8w9-3pxv

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