Excessive Iteration in parsson - CVE-2023-4043
Published: January 11, 2024
Vulnerability identifier: #VU85304
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green
CVE-ID: CVE-2023-4043
CWE-ID: CWE-834
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: Eclipse EE4J
Affected software:
parsson
parsson
Detailed vulnerability description
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to built-in support for parsing numbers with large scale in Java has a number of edge cases where the input text of a number can lead to much larger processing time than one would expect. A remote attacker can trigger excessive iteration and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
How to mitigate CVE-2023-4043
Install updates from vendor's website.