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CVE-2022-40152

35
FAUCET Score

CVE-2022-40152 is a Denial of Service (DoS) vulnerability affecting Woodstox XML parsers, including those used in FasterXML Woodstox and XStream, when DTD support is enabled. An unauthenticated attacker can trigger a stack overflow by providing specially crafted XML input, leading to a parser crash and service disruption. With a CVSS score of 7.5 (High), this vulnerability is easily exploitable over the network with no user interaction required, resulting in a high impact on availability. Currently, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 1.4.20CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:xstream:xstream:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
< 5.4.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:fasterxml:woodstox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 6.0.0, < 6.4.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:fasterxml:woodstox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

6.5MEDIUM

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
2.8
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
19.65%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
97.1%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.1965 is in the 96th percentile among its peer group of 51,485 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (34)

mavenpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: com.fasterxml.woodstox:woodstox-coreFixed in: 6.4.0
mavenpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: com.fasterxml.woodstox:woodstox-coreFixed in: 5.4.0
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7Fixed in: woodstox-core
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.1 EUS for RHEL 7Fixed in: eap7-activemq-artemis-0:1.5.5.016-1.redhat_00001.1.ep7.el7
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.1 EUS for RHEL 7Fixed in: eap7-artemis-native-1:1.5.5.016-1.redhat_00001.1.ep7.el7
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.1 EUS for RHEL 7Fixed in: eap7-jboss-xnio-base-0:3.5.11-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.ep7.el7
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.1 EUS for RHEL 7Fixed in: eap7-jsoup-0:1.14.2-1.redhat_00002.1.ep7.el7
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.1 EUS for RHEL 7Fixed in: eap7-undertow-0:1.4.18-14.SP13_redhat_00001.1.ep7.el7
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.1 EUS for RHEL 7Fixed in: eap7-wildfly-0:7.1.10-2.GA_redhat_00002.1.ep7.el7
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.1 EUS for RHEL 7Fixed in: eap7-woodstox-core-0:5.0.3-2.redhat_00002.1.ep7.el7
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.1 EUS for RHEL 7Fixed in: eap7-xml-security-0:2.0.10-2.redhat_00002.1.ep7.el7
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3 EUS for RHEL 7Fixed in: eap7-activemq-artemis-0:2.9.0-10.redhat_00021.1.el7eap
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3 EUS for RHEL 7Fixed in: eap7-gson-0:2.8.9-1.redhat_00001.1.el7eap
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3 EUS for RHEL 7Fixed in: eap7-hal-console-0:3.2.18-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.el7eap
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3 EUS for RHEL 7Fixed in: eap7-jboss-server-migration-0:1.7.2-14.Final_redhat_00015.1.el7eap
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3 EUS for RHEL 7Fixed in: eap7-jboss-xnio-base-0:3.7.14-3.Final_redhat_00001.1.el7eap
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3 EUS for RHEL 7Fixed in: eap7-woodstox-core-0:6.4.0-1.redhat_00001.1.el7eap
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.4 for RHEL 8Fixed in: eap7-woodstox-core-0:6.4.0-1.redhat_00001.1.el8eap
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.4 for RHEL 9Fixed in: eap7-woodstox-core-0:6.4.0-1.redhat_00001.1.el9eap
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.4 on RHEL 7Fixed in: eap7-woodstox-core-0:6.4.0-1.redhat_00001.1.el7eap
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: RHINT Camel-Q 2.13.2Fixed in: woodstox-core
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: RHINT Camel-Springboot 3.18.3.P2
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: RHINT Camel-Springboot 3.20.1Fixed in: woodstox-core
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: RHINT Service Registry 2.4.3 GAFixed in: woodstox-core
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: RHPAM 7.13.4 asyncFixed in: woodstox-core
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3 EUS for RHEL 7Fixed in: eap7-wildfly-0:7.3.13-4.GA_redhat_00002.1.el7eap
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: OCP-Tools-4.13-RHEL-8Fixed in: jenkins-0:2.387.3.1684911776-3.el8
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redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Integration Camel K 1Fixed in: woodstox-core
redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4Fixed in: jenkins
redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat build of QuarkusFixed in: woodstox-core
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Satellite 6Fixed in: woodstox-core
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Fuse 7Fixed in: woodstox-core
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Data Grid 8Fixed in: xstream
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Migration Toolkit for RuntimesFixed in: xstream

Vendor Advisories (2)

mavenGHSA-3f7h-mf4q-vrm4medium

Denial of Service due to parser crash

Sep 17, 2022
redhatCVE-2022-40152Moderate

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

Sep 16, 2022

References

bugs.chromium.org / p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail
ExploitPermissions RequiredThird Party Advisory
github.com / x-stream/xstream/issues/304
Issue TrackingThird Party Advisory