JXPath up to 1.3 stack-based overflow

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A vulnerability has been found in JXPath up to 1.3 and classified as critical. This affects an unknown function. The manipulation leads to stack-based overflow. This vulnerability is referenced as CVE-2022-40160. Remote exploitation of the attack is possible. No exploit is available.

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A vulnerability was found in JXPath up to 1.3. It has been rated as critical. This issue affects an unknown part. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a stack-based overflow vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to 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). Impacted is 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 published 10/06/2022. The advisory is shared at bugs.chromium.org. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2022-40160. Neither technical details nor an exploit are 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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