CVE-2022-40151

Stack Buffer Overflow in xstream

State
Published
Severity
6.5 Medium
Published
Sep 16, 2022
Updated
Apr 21, 2025
Reserved
Sep 7, 2022

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Description

Those using Xstream to seralize XML 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.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.16.5 MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HGoogle

Weaknesses

  • CWE-121 Stack-based Buffer Overflow

Affected Products

ProductVersions
xstreamxstream
  • 1.4.19 and earlierAffected

References

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