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CVE-2022-23990 high CVSS 7.5

Vulnerability in platform/external/expat (CVE-2022-23990)

Summary

Vulnerability in platform/external/expat (CVE-2022-23990). 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 an integer overflow in the doProlog function.

Source: OSV.dev (Open Source Vulnerabilities) NVD GitHub Advisory OSV

Auto-generated summary

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A weakness called CVE-2022-23990 was discovered in Expat.
Severity is Info. Low severity or not yet rated.
What you should do: update the affected software to the latest version. If unsure, ask your IT team or search the vendor's site for "Expat CVE-2022-23990".

CVE-2022-23990 (Expat). Severity: Info. Category: CWE-190.
Response plan:

  1. Check the vendor advisory for affected versions and the patched release.
  2. If a vulnerable version is running in production, schedule maintenance (urgency from KEV/CVSS).
  3. If no patch yet, mitigate via WAF rule, disabling the affected feature, etc.
  4. Monitor logs / SIEM for known IOC and PoC signatures of this CVE.
    PoCs and fix commits: see the 'References' section, MITRE, and NVD.
❓ What is the problem

A weakness (CVE-2022-23990) in Expat. A serious software flaw has been identified.

📍 Affected scope

Target versions of Expat (see vendor advisory). If running in production, identify exposure immediately.

🔥 Severity

Severity: Info. Low severity or not yet rated.

🔧 How to fix

Update to the patched release as listed in the vendor advisory. (Typical mitigation pattern for CWE-190)

🛡️ Workaround

If a patch is not yet available, consider disabling the affected feature, applying WAF rules, blocking via network ACLs, or isolating the vulnerable version.

🔍 Detection

Check version information, scan dependencies via SBOM, and monitor SIEM for IOC and PoC signatures related to this CVE.

Response actions

Concrete steps and command examples for SOC/SRE teams to execute in order

  1. 1
    Identify 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。

  2. 2
    Apply 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。

  3. 3
    Post-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

Android platform/external/expat
[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"12L:0"},{"fixed":"12L:2022-09-01"}]}]

Fix status by distribution

Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE

References

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