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Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity

CVE-2024-47554

High
7.5/10

Summary

Uncontrolled Resource Consumption vulnerability in Apache Commons IO. The "org.apache.commons.io.input.XmlStreamReader" class may excessively consume CPU resources when processing maliciously crafted input. This issue affects commons-io:commons-io package versions 2.0 through 2.13.0. Users are recommended to upgrade to version 2.14.0 or later, which fixes the issue.

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
  • NONE
  • UNCHANGED
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • HIGH

CWE-1333 - Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity

The product uses a regular expression with an inefficient, possibly exponential worst-case computational complexity that consumes excessive CPU cycles.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published