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Fencer Vulns
high 7.5

CVE-2022-41404 json

org.ini4j allows attackers to cause a Denial of Service (DoS)

published 2022-10-11 4 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also GHSA-jr6h-r7vg-f9mc , EUVD-2022-7120

cvss
7.5
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.8%
EPSS 1.8% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 78%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

An issue in the fetch() method in the BasicProfile class of org.ini4j through version v0.5.4 allows attackers to cause a Denial of Service (DoS) via unspecified vectors.

Patch / fix

  • ini4j_project ini4j 0.5.4
  • ini4j Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 0.5.4-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2022-41404

  • ini4j openSUSE Tumbleweed 0.5.4-1.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:13788-1

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2022-41404 updated cvss 7.5

org.ini4j: unspecified DoS

  • Red Hat Fuse 7 org.arquillian.cube-arquillian-cube-parent org.arquillian.cube-arquillian-cube-parent Red Hat JBoss Data Grid 7 org.jboss.quickstarts.jdg-jboss-jdg-quickstarts org.jboss.quickstarts.jdg-jboss-jdg-quickstarts
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat OpenShift Developer Tools and Services jenkins-2-plugins Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.11 jenkins-2-plugins
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
Proof of concept is public
Automatable
yes
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
17 mo ago

Exploit prediction

1.82% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 78% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • sourceforge.net https://sourceforge.net/p/ini4j/bugs/56/ referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CISA ADP 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CNA 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
GitHub 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
maven org.ini4j:ini4j
<=0.5.4
 no fix listed

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

References

Sources

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