Exposure of Resource to Wrong Sphere Affecting expat package, versions <2.4.1-2ubuntu0.1
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
Low
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
2.48% (90th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-UBUNTU2110-EXPAT-2403824
- published 16 Feb 2022
- disclosed 16 Feb 2022
Introduced: 16 Feb 2022
CVE-2022-25236 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Ubuntu:21.10
expat
to version 2.4.1-2ubuntu0.1 or higher.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream expat
package and not the expat
package as distributed by Ubuntu
.
See How to fix?
for Ubuntu:21.10
relevant fixed versions and status.
xmlparse.c in Expat (aka libexpat) before 2.4.5 allows attackers to insert namespace-separator characters into namespace URIs.
References
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2022-25236
- https://github.com/libexpat/libexpat/pull/561
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/02/19/1
- https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5085
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/3UFRBA3UQVIQKXTBUQXDWQOVWNBKLERU/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/Y27XO3JMKAOMQZVPS3B4MJGEAHCZF5OM/
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20220303-0008/
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/03/msg00007.html
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2022.html
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/167238/Zoom-XMPP-Stanza-Smuggling-Remote-Code-Execution.html
- https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/pdf/ssa-484086.pdf
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202209-24
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/3UFRBA3UQVIQKXTBUQXDWQOVWNBKLERU/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/Y27XO3JMKAOMQZVPS3B4MJGEAHCZF5OM/