CVE-2026-62296

HIGH

HAPI FHIR: XHTML narrative parser unbounded recursion causes StackOverflow denial of service

Title source: cna
STIX 2.1

Description

HAPI FHIR is a complete implementation of the HL7 FHIR standard for healthcare interoperability in Java. Prior to 6.9.11, XhtmlParser.java imposes no maximum element nesting depth, so a deeply nested text.div narrative triggers unbounded recursion between parseElementInner() and parseElement(), raising a StackOverflowError. An attacker who can submit FHIR resources containing such narratives can thus crash a parsing or validation worker thread, affecting validator services and any application that parses attacker-supplied FHIR JSON or XML. This issue is fixed in version 6.9.11.

Scores

CVSS v3 7.5
EPSS 0.0028
EPSS Percentile 20.0%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-20 CWE-400 CWE-674
Status published
Products (5)
hapifhir/ca.uhn.hapi.fhir:org.hl7.fhir.r5 < 6.9.11
hapifhir/ca.uhn.hapi.fhir:org.hl7.fhir.utilities < 6.9.11
hapifhir/ca.uhn.hapi.fhir:org.hl7.fhir.validation < 6.9.11
hapifhir/ca.uhn.hapi.fhir:org.hl7.fhir.validation.cli < 6.9.11
hapifhir/org.hl7.fhir.core < 6.9.11
Published Aug 07, 2026
Tracked Since Aug 08, 2026