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Saving a document with a large object number leads to persistent OOM errors

Moderate
tmortagne published GHSA-92wp-r7hm-42g7 Mar 1, 2023

Package

maven org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-oldcore (Maven)

Affected versions

< 14.0-rc-1

Patched versions

14.0-rc-1

Description

Impact

It's possible to make the farm unusable by adding an object to a page with a huge number (e.g. 67108863). This will most of the time fill the memory allocated to XWiki and make it unusable every time this document is manipulated.

Patches

It has been patched in XWiki 14.0

Workarounds

There is no workaround.

References

https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-19223

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Severity

Moderate
5.7
/ 10

CVSS base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
Low
User interaction
Required
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CVE ID

CVE-2023-26470

Weaknesses