Vulnerability in platform/external/expat (CVE-2022-23852)
Summary
Vulnerability in platform/external/expat (CVE-2022-23852). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Mitigation: upgrade to 12L:2022-09-01 or later.
Original description
The description as published by the source.
Expat (aka libexpat) before 2.4.4 has a signed integer overflow in XML_GetBuffer, for configurations with a nonzero XML_CONTEXT_BYTES.
Source: OSV.dev (Open Source Vulnerabilities) NVD GitHub Advisory OSV
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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2022-23852 has been found in platform/external/expat.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
What to do: upgrade platform/external/expat to 12L:2022-09-01 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "platform/external/expat CVE-2022-23852" on the vendor's site.
CVE-2022-23852 (platform/external/expat) — CWE-190
Patched: 12L:2022-09-01 — apply immediately
Plan: 1) Audit SBOM/dependencies, 2) Stage→prod upgrade, 3) Add WAF/proxy monitoring on affected endpoints, 4) Hunt IOCs in logs.
Refs: see the GHSA / vendor advisory / patched release linked on this page.
A vulnerability (CWE-190) exists in platform/external/expat.
Check the vendor advisory for the affected versions of platform/external/expat.
Severity: ?. Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
Update to 12L:2022-09-01.
Until the patch is applied: disable the affected feature, apply WAF rules, or restrict access via network ACLs.
Search webserver/proxy logs for unusual request patterns matching this CVE's known IOCs. Run grep -r 'platform/external/expat' . against your dependency files (package-lock.json, requirements.txt, go.sum) to find affected services.
Response actions
Concrete steps and command examples for SOC/SRE teams to execute in order
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1Identify exposure identify
grep -r 'platform/external/expat' . | grep -v node_modulesリポジトリと本番環境の依存ファイル (package-lock.json / requirements.txt / go.sum / Gemfile.lock 等) で
platform/external/expatを grep し、稼働しているサービス・バージョンを把握する。 -
2Apply patch patch
Upgrade platform/external/expat to 12L:2022-09-01ステージング環境で 12L:2022-09-01 に上げて回帰テスト → 本番反映。回帰テストはアプリの主要ハッピーパスを含めること。
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3Post-deployment verification verify
Confirm patched version is live in productionパッチ適用後、ステージングで PoC または同等の悪用パターンを再現して脆弱性が閉じたことを確認。本番ではアクセスログ・WAF でアラート再発が無いか継続監視。
Affected packages
Fix status by distribution
Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE
- Alpine Linux ALPINE-CVE-2022-23852 expat Fixed in: 2.2.10-r1
- Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2022-23852 expat Fixed in: 2.2.10-2+deb11u1
- Ubuntu UBUNTU-CVE-2022-23852 expat Fixed in: 2.1.0-4ubuntu1.4+esm4
References
- advisory source.android.com
- advisory tenable.com
- advisory debian.org
- advisory lists.debian.org
- advisory cert-portal.siemens.com
- advisory oracle.com
- advisory security.gentoo.org
- advisory security.netapp.com
- patch android.googlesource.com
- patch github.com
- web nvd.nist.gov
- web security.netapp.com
- web cert-portal.siemens.com
- web cert-portal.siemens.com
- web github.com