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Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer in Apache Sling

Moderate severity GitHub Reviewed Published May 17, 2022 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Jan 27, 2023

Package

maven org.apache.sling:org.apache.sling.api (Maven)

Affected versions

<= 2.3.0

Patched versions

2.4.0

Description

The deepGetOrCreateNode function in impl/operations/AbstractCreateOperation.java in org.apache.sling.servlets.post.bundle 2.2.0 and 2.3.0 in Apache Sling does not properly handle a NULL value that returned when the session does not have permissions to the root node, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via unspecified vectors.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Oct 17, 2013
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database May 17, 2022
Reviewed Jul 8, 2022
Last updated Jan 27, 2023

Severity

Moderate

EPSS score

0.342%
(72nd percentile)

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2013-2254

GHSA ID

GHSA-cxwh-vmhg-39r2

Source code

No known source code
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