Uncontrolled Resource Consumption Affecting commons-io:commons-io package, versions [2.0,2.14.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.04% (11th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-JAVA-COMMONSIO-8161190
  • published 3 Oct 2024
  • disclosed 3 Oct 2024
  • credit CodeQL

How to fix?

Upgrade commons-io:commons-io to version 2.14.0 or higher.

Overview

commons-io:commons-io is a The Apache Commons IO library contains utility classes, stream implementations, file filters, file comparators, endian transformation classes, and much more.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Uncontrolled Resource Consumption through the XmlStreamReader class. An attacker can cause the application to consume excessive CPU resources by sending specially crafted XML content.

CVSS Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1
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Snyk

Recommended
6.9 medium
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Network
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    Low
  • Attack Requirements (AT)
    None
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    None
  • User Interaction (UI)
    None
  • Confidentiality (VC)
    None
  • Integrity (VI)
    None
  • Availability (VA)
    Low
  • Confidentiality (SC)
    None
  • Integrity (SI)
    None
  • Availability (SA)
    None