JXPath up to 1.3 stack-based overflow

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A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in JXPath up to 1.3. The affected element is an unknown function. Performing a manipulation results in stack-based overflow. This vulnerability was named CVE-2022-40158. The attack may be initiated remotely. There is no available exploit.

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A vulnerability was found in JXPath up to 1.3. It has been classified as critical. This affects an unknown functionality. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a stack-based overflow vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-121. A stack-based buffer overflow condition is a condition where the buffer being overwritten is allocated on the stack (i.e., is a local variable or, rarely, a parameter to a function). This is going to have an impact on availability. The summary by CVE is:

Those using JXPath to interpret XPath 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 stackoverflow. This effect may support a denial of service attack.

The weakness was presented 10/06/2022. It is possible to read the advisory at bugs.chromium.org. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2022-40158. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

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• JXPath

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• 1.0
• 1.1
• 1.2
• 1.3

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