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SCA: security update for com.fasterxml.woodstox:woodstox-core (GHSA-3f7h-mf4q-vrm4)

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 409476

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - Those using Woodstox to parse XML data may be vulnerable to Denial of Service attacks (DOS) if DTD support
 is enabled. 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. (CVE-2022-40152)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-3f7h-mf4q-vrm4

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 409476

Version: Revision 1.5

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 1/23/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.2

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.1

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-40152

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/17/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/16/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-40152