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Uncontrolled Resource Consumption in commons-io:commons-io

CVE-2024-47554

  • commons-io:commons-io
High
8.7/10

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-400 - Uncontrolled resource consumption

An uncontrolled resource allocation attack (also known as resource exhaustion attack) triggers unauthorized overconsumption of the limited resources in an application, such as memory, file system storage, database connection pool entries, and CPU. This may lead to denial of service for valid users and degradation of the application's functionality as well as that of the host operating system.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published