Impact The vulnerability may allow a remote attacker to terminate the application with a stack overflow error resulting in a denial of service only by manipulating the processed input stream.

Patches XStream 1.4.20 handles the stack overflow and raises an InputManipulationException instead.

Workarounds The only solution is to catch the StackOverflowError in the client code calling XStream.

References See full information about the nature of the vulnerability and the steps to reproduce it in XStream's documentation for CVE-2022-40151.

Credits The vulnerability was discovered and reported by Henry Lin of the Google OSS-Fuzz team.

For more information If you have any questions or comments about this advisory: Open an issue in XStream Contact us at XStream Google Group

A flaw was found in the FasterXML/woodstox package. This flaw allows an attacker to cause a denial of service (DoS) in its target via XML serialization. An attacker may benefit from the parser sending a malicious input that may cause a crash. This vulnerability is only relevant for users using the DTD parsing functionality.