Vulnerability · Published Oct 21, 2022 · Assigned by GitHub_M

CVE-2022-23462Stack Buffer Overflow in iowow

Medium 6.2

In plain English

A medium-severity buffer overflow in iowow from Softmotions. Proof-of-concept exploit code is public. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.7% (higher than 55% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS 3.1)6.2Medium

Exploit odds (30 days)0.7%top 44.9% of all CVEs

Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: poc

Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

IOWOW is a C utility library and persistent key/value storage engine. Versions 1.4.15 and prior contain a stack buffer overflow vulnerability that allows for Denial of Service (DOS) when it parses scientific notation numbers present in JSON. A patch for this issue is available at commit a79d31e4cff1d5a08f665574b29fd885897a28fd in the `master` branch of the repository. There are no workarounds other than applying the patch.

Affected products (as reported)

Vendor	Product	Versions
Softmotions	iowow	1.4.15 – through 1.4.15

Weakness: CWE-120, CWE-121 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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Affected products (as reported)

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