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Denial of service in Apache Xerces2

High severity GitHub Reviewed Published Jun 15, 2020 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Feb 13, 2023

Package

maven xerces:xercesImpl (Maven)

Affected versions

< 2.12.0

Patched versions

2.12.0

Description

Apache Xerces2 Java Parser before 2.12.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a crafted message to an XML service, which triggers hash table collisions.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Oct 30, 2017
Reviewed Jun 15, 2020
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Jun 15, 2020
Last updated Feb 13, 2023

Severity

High
7.5
/ 10

CVSS base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2012-0881

GHSA ID

GHSA-vmqm-g3vh-847m

Source code

No known source code
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