GHSA-78wr-2p64-hpwj

Apache Commons IO: Possible denial of service attack on untrusted input to XmlStreamReader

Source: GitHub Advisory Database (reviewed) High CVE-2024-47554

Packages

Ecosystem	Package	Affected	Fixed in
Maven	commons-io:commons-io	>= 2.0, < 2.14.0	2.14.0

Details

As written in the advisory (Markdown source, shown as plain text).

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 Apache Commons IO: from 2.0 before 2.14.0. Users are recommended to upgrade to version 2.14.0 or later, which fixes the issue.

References

External links from the advisory. They lead to third-party sites.

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-47554 advisory
https://github.com/apache/commons-io package
https://lists.apache.org/thread/6ozr91rr9cj5lm0zyhv30bsp317hk5z1 web
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20250131-0010 web
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/10/03/2 web