vulnerability

Ubuntu: USN-8191-1 (CVE-2024-47554): Apache Commons IO vulnerability

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Apr 21, 2026
Added
Apr 23, 2026
Modified
Apr 23, 2026

Description

Uncontrolled Resource Consumption vulnerability in Apache Commons IO.

The org.apache.commons.io.input.XmlStreamReader class may excessively consume CPU resources when processing maliciously crafted input.

This issue affects Apache Commons IO: from 2.0 before 2.14.0.

Users are recommended to upgrade to version 2.14.0 or later, which fixes the issue.

Solution

ubuntu-pro-upgrade-libcommons-io-java
Title
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