CVE-2022-45693 Jettison Out-of-bounds Write vulnerability

What is CVE-2022-45693?

CVE-2022-45693 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 13 Dec 2022. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Jettison before v1.5.2 was discovered to contain a stack overflow via the map parameter. This vulnerability allows attackers to cause a Denial of Service (DoS) via a crafted string.

Weakness: CWE-787

Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-45693?

2 open source packages ship an affected version, including org.codehaus.jettison:jettison. It affects 2 products.

Products include Debian Debian Linux, Jettison Project Jettison.

How do I fix CVE-2022-45693?

Upgrade org.codehaus.jettison:jettison to 1.5.2 or later.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2022-45693 being exploited?

It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2022-45693 exists.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as CLEANSTART-2026-NZ47106, DEBIAN-CVE-2022-45693, ECHO-fd53-374a-d3fa, GHSA-grr4-wv38-f68w, UBUNTU-CVE-2022-45693.