CVE-2024-47554

Publication date 3 October 2024

Last updated 23 April 2026

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

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.

Status

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Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
commons-io	26.04 LTS resolute	Not affected
	25.10 questing	Not affected
	25.04 plucky	Ignored end of life, was needs-triage
	24.10 oracular	Ignored end of life, was needs-triage
	24.04 LTS noble	Fixed 2.11.0-2ubuntu0.24.04.1~esm1
	22.04 LTS jammy	Fixed 2.11.0-2ubuntu0.22.04.1~esm1
	20.04 LTS focal	Fixed 2.6-2ubuntu0.20.04.1+esm1
	18.04 LTS bionic	Fixed 2.6-2ubuntu0.18.04.1+esm1
	16.04 LTS xenial	Fixed 2.4-2ubuntu0.16.04.1~esm1
	14.04 LTS trusty	Fixed 2.4-2ubuntu0.1~esm2

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Patch details

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Package	Patch details
commons-io	Upstream: 06fde31

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	4.3 · Medium
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	Required
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	None
Integrity impact	None
Availability impact	Low
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

USN-8191-1
Apache Commons IO vulnerability
21 April 2026