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CVE-2022-44641

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2022-11-18 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-776

Description

In Linaro Automated Validation Architecture (LAVA) before 2022.11, users with valid credentials can submit crafted XMLRPC requests that cause a recursive XML entity expansion, leading to excessive use of memory on the server and a Denial of Service.

Affected products

• Debian Linux: 10.0, 11.0
• Linaro Lava: before 2022.11 — fixed in 2022.11

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Linaro Lava 2022.11. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/01/msg00016.html
• https://lists.lavasoftware.org/archives/list/lava-announce%40lists.lavasoftware.org/thread/WHXGQMIZAPW3GCQEXYHC32N2ZAAAIYCY/
• https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5318
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/01/msg00016.html
• https://lists.lavasoftware.org/archives/list/lava-announce%40lists.lavasoftware.org/thread/WHXGQMIZAPW3GCQEXYHC32N2ZAAAIYCY/
• https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5318

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