CVE-2022-40160: Stack Overflow in JXPath

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2022-10-06 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-121

Description

** DISPUTED ** This record was originally reported by the oss-fuzz project who failed to consider the security context in which JXPath is intended to be used and failed to contact the JXPath maintainers prior to requesting the CVE allocation. The CVE was then allocated by Google in breach of the CNA rules. After review by the JXPath maintainers, the original report was found to be invalid.

Affected products

jxpath: through 1.3

References

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=47053
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=47053

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