CVE-2022-2309 – lxml

Package

Manager: pip
Name: lxml
Vulnerable Version: >=0 <4.9.1

Severity

Level: Medium

CVSS v3.1: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

EPSS: 0.00659 pctl0.70185

Details

lxml NULL Pointer Dereference allows attackers to cause a denial of service NULL Pointer Dereference allows attackers to cause a denial of service (or application crash). This only applies when lxml is used together with libxml2 2.9.10 through 2.9.14. libxml2 2.9.9 and earlier are not affected. It allows triggering crashes through forged input data, given a vulnerable code sequence in the application. The vulnerability is caused by the iterwalk function (also used by the canonicalize function). Such code shouldn't be in wide-spread use, given that parsing + iterwalk would usually be replaced with the more efficient iterparse function. However, an XML converter that serialises to C14N would also be vulnerable, for example, and there are legitimate use cases for this code sequence. If untrusted input is received (also remotely) and processed via iterwalk function, a crash can be triggered.

Metadata

Created: 2022-07-06T00:00:30Z
Modified: 2024-09-30T20:19:35Z
Source: https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2022/07/GHSA-wrxv-2j5q-m38w/GHSA-wrxv-2j5q-m38w.json
CWE IDs: ["CWE-476"]
Alternative ID: GHSA-wrxv-2j5q-m38w
Finding: F002
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