Other | Uncontrolled Resource Consumption (CWE-400)

published 2023-08-10 3 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2023-42030

cvss: 5.5; version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 0.4%; EPSS 0.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 30%
public exploits: 0; none known

Adobe XMP Toolkit versions 2022.06 is affected by a Uncontrolled Resource Consumption vulnerability. An unauthenticated attacker could leverage this vulnerability to achieve an application denial-of-service in the context of the current user. Exploitation of this issue requires user interaction in that a victim must open a malicious file.

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-2023-38210 updated 2026-11-07 cvss 5.5

xmpcore: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

Red Hat BPM Suite 6 xmpcore xmpcore Red Hat Fuse 7 xmpcore xmpcore Red Hat JBoss BRMS 6 xmpcore xmpcore Red Hat JBoss Fuse 6 xmpcore xmpcore Red Hat JBoss Fuse Service Works 6 xmpcore xmpcore
affected: no fix planned “Out of support scope”

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: none
Automatable: no
Technical impact: partial
Assessed: 20 mo ago (2025-02-26)

Exploit prediction

0.36% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 30% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
CNA	3.1	5.5	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD	3.1	5.5	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected products

Adobe XMP Toolkit

Classification

Weakness

CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

References

helpx.adobe.com /security/products/xmpcore/apsb23-45.html
vendor-advisory

Sources

CVE List CVE-2023-38210
NVD CVE-2023-38210

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Summary