CVE-2009-2625 (Medium) detected in xerces-2.4.0.jar

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CVE-2009-2625 - Medium Severity Vulnerability

Vulnerable Library - xerces-2.4.0.jar

Dependency Hierarchy:

• ❌ xerces-2.4.0.jar (Vulnerable Library)

Found in HEAD commit: 8c55da57e6742a71db36a297b399eb3abb06431c

Found in base branch: master

Vulnerability Details

XMLScanner.java in Apache Xerces2 Java, as used in Sun Java Runtime Environment (JRE) in JDK and JRE 6 before Update 15 and JDK and JRE 5.0 before Update 20, and in other products, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop and application hang) via malformed XML input, as demonstrated by the Codenomicon XML fuzzing framework.

Publish Date: 2009-08-06

URL: CVE-2009-2625

CVSS 3 Score Details (5.3)

Base Score Metrics:

• Exploitability Metrics:
  • Attack Vector: Network
  • Attack Complexity: Low
  • Privileges Required: None
  • User Interaction: None
  • Scope: Unchanged
• Impact Metrics:
  • Confidentiality Impact: None
  • Integrity Impact: None
  • Availability Impact: Low

For more information on CVSS3 Scores, click here.

Suggested Fix

Type: Upgrade version

Origin: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2009-2625

Release Date: 2009-08-06

Fix Resolution: apache-xerces:xercesImpl - 2.9.1;xerces:xercesImpl - 2.3.0,2.9.1-NODEP,2.9.0;org.apache.servicemix.bundles:org.apache.servicemix.bundles.xerces - 2.10.0_1