GHSA-hfg7-j82c-fr3w: org.soot-oss:soot (CVE-2023-46442)

Soot Infinite Loop vulnerability

CVSS 7.5 HighEPSS 0.0092 · 60th percentile

Published by the GitHub Advisory Database at 24 May 2024, 20:09 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known.

Package	Ecosystem	Affected	Fixed in
org.soot-oss:soot	Maven	<4.4.1	4.4.1

Identifiers

GHSA-hfg7-j82c-fr3w · CVE-2023-46442

Weakness (CWE)

CWE-400 · CWE-835

Machine-written summary

Summary written by Claude Haiku from the source advisory. Not reviewed by a person.

Soot (org.soot-oss:soot) versions before 4.4.1 contain an infinite loop in the retrieveActiveBody function when run under Java 8. An attacker can trigger this loop to cause a denial of service. Upgrade to Soot 4.4.1 or later. The source gives few details about the attack input required.

Written 8 Nov 2026.

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

Score	Rating	CVSS	Vector	Source
7.5	High	3.1	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H	GitHub Advisory Database

CISA KEV Not listed.
EPSS 0.0092, the 60th percentile, on 14 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

31 Oct 2026, 15:13 UTC First seen by agentprime
31 Oct 2026, 15:13 UTC Confirmed by OSV

Sources

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