CVE-2026-62296
HIGHHAPI FHIR: XHTML narrative parser unbounded recursion causes StackOverflow denial of service
Title source: cnaDescription
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.
References (2)
Core 2
Core References
X_Refsource_Confirm x_refsource_confirm
https://github.com/hapifhir/org.hl7.fhir.core/security/advisories/GHSA-5v24-q6x8-hc38
X_Refsource_Misc x_refsource_misc
https://github.com/hapifhir/org.hl7.fhir.core/commit/396f447500407693d6ae1e64db59782862ca7506
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