CVE-2008-4482

Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2008-10-08 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-20

Description

The XML parser in Xerces-C++ before 3.0.0 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (stack consumption and crash) via an XML schema definition with a large maxOccurs value, which triggers excessive memory consumption during validation of an XML file.

Affected products

Apache Software Foundation Apache Xerces C++: through 2.8.0; 1.0.0, 1.0.1, 1.1.0, 1.2.0, 1.3.0, 1.4.0 (+11)

References

http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/XERCESC-1051
http://secunia.com/advisories/32108
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31533
http://xerces.apache.org/xerces-c/releases.html
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/45596
http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/XERCESC-1051
http://secunia.com/advisories/32108
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31533
http://xerces.apache.org/xerces-c/releases.html
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/45596

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