CVSS3
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS
Percentile
31.6%
Users with write rights can insert well-formed content that is not handled well by the parser. For instance, with xwiki/2.1
, inserting a deeply nested group blocks (((( ((( ((( ((( .... ))) ))) ))) )))
(see the generator below to produce a large payload) can lead to the parser throwing a StackOverflowError
.
As a consequence, some pages becomes unusable, including:
Note that on the page, the normal UI is completely missing and it is not possible to open the editor directly to revert the change as the stack overflow is already triggered while getting the title of the document. This means that it is quite difficult to remove this content once inserted.
This has been patched on XWiki 13.10.10, 14.4.6, and 14.9-rc-1.
A temporary solution to avoid Stack Overflow errors is to increase the memory allocated to the stack by using the -Xss
JVM parameter (e.g., -Xss32m
). This should allow the parser to pass and to fix the faulty content.
Note that we did not evaluated the consequence on other aspects of the system (e.g., performances), and should be only be used as a temporary solution.
Also, this does not prevent the issue to occur again with another content.
Consequently, it is strongly advised to upgrade to a version where the issue has been patched.
If you have any questions or comments about this advisory:
The Javascript code below produces 32768 nested group blocks, around the Hello
text.
let result = "(((\nHello\n)))";
for (let i = 0; i < 15; ++i) {
result = result.replace("Hello", result);
}
console.log(result);