CVE-2007-3816

Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2007-07-17 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

JWIG might allow context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (service degradation) via loops of references to external templates. NOTE: this issue has been disputed by multiple third parties who state that only the application developer can trigger the issue, so no privilege boundaries are crossed. However, it seems possible that this is a vulnerability class to which an JWIG application may be vulnerable if template contents can be influenced, but this would be an issue in the application itself, not JWIG

Affected products

Brics Jwig: all versions

References

http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2007-July/064768.html
http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2007-July/064933.html
http://seclists.org/bugtraq/2007/Jul/0206.html
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2007/Jul/0446.html
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2007/Jul/0451.html
http://www.secniche.org/papers/HackAnnotationsInJWIG.pdf
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/473707/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/474474/100/200/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/24974
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1018432
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/35515
http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2007-July/064768.html

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