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CVE-2022-25313

25
FAUCET Score

CVE-2022-25313 is a stack exhaustion vulnerability in Expat (libexpat) versions prior to 2.4.5, affecting products from vendors like Debian, Fedora, Oracle, and Siemens. An unauthenticated attacker can trigger this by providing a specially crafted DTD element with a large nesting depth, requiring user interaction. Rated Medium (CVSS 6.5), this vulnerability primarily impacts availability (A:H) due to potential denial of service. While there is no known active exploitation, public exploit code, or Metasploit/Nuclei modules, the vulnerability has garnered some community discussion and media coverage, indicating awareness.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 2.4.5CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:libexpat_project:libexpat:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
10.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:10.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
11.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:11.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
34CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:34:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
35CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:35:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

6.5MEDIUM

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
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
3.27%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
87.1%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0327 is in the 94th percentile among its peer group of 26,236 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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

Media Mentions

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 (18)

microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: cm1 expat 2.4.6-1 on CBL Mariner 1.0Fixed in: 2.4.6-1
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: 18787-16820Fixed in: 2.4.6-1
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: 18788-16823Fixed in: 2.4.8-1
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: cbl2 expat 2.4.8-1 on CBL Mariner 2.0Fixed in: 2.4.8-1
oraclepatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Advanced Update SupportFixed in: expat-0:2.2.10-1.el8_2
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Advanced Mission Critical Update SupportFixed in: expat-0:2.2.10-1.el8_4
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Extended Update Support Long-Life Add-OnFixed in: expat-0:2.2.10-1.el8_4
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9Fixed in: expat-0:2.2.10-12.el9_0.2
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Text-Only JBCSFixed in: expat
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Fixed in: expat-0:2.2.5-8.el8_6.2
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Fixed in: mingw-expat-0:2.4.8-1.el8
View patch
redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9Fixed in: firefox
redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9Fixed in: thunderbird
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Fixed in: thunderbird
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Fixed in: thunderbird:flatpak/thunderbird
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Fixed in: firefox
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Fixed in: firefox:flatpak/firefox

Vendor Advisories (2)

redhatCVE-2022-25313Moderate

expat: Stack exhaustion in doctype parsing

Feb 19, 2022
microsoft2022-Feb/CVE-2022-25313Moderate

In Expat (aka libexpat) before 2.4.5 an attacker can trigger stack exhaustion in build_model via a large nesting depth in the DTD element.

Feb 8, 2022

References

cert-portal.siemens.com / productcert/pdf/ssa-484086.pdf
Third Party Advisory
github.com / libexpat/libexpat/pull/558
Third Party Advisory
lists.debian.org / debian-lts-announce/2022/03/msg00007.html
Third Party Advisory
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/3UFRBA3UQVIQKXTBUQXDWQOVWNBKLERU
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/Y27XO3JMKAOMQZVPS3B4MJGEAHCZF5OM
security.gentoo.org / glsa/202209-24
Third Party Advisory
security.netapp.com / advisory/ntap-20220303-0008
Third Party Advisory
debian.org / security/2022/dsa-5085
Third Party Advisory
oracle.com / security-alerts/cpuapr2022.html
PatchThird Party Advisory
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2022/02/19/1
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory