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Jettison memory exhaustion

High severity GitHub Reviewed Published Sep 17, 2022 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Jul 13, 2023

Package

maven org.codehaus.jettison:jettison (Maven)

Affected versions

< 1.5.2

Patched versions

1.5.2

Description

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 Out of memory. This effect may support a denial of service attack.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Sep 16, 2022
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Sep 17, 2022
Reviewed Sep 20, 2022
Last updated Jul 13, 2023

Severity

High
7.5
/ 10

CVSS base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2022-40150

GHSA ID

GHSA-x27m-9w8j-5vcw

Source code

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