CVE-2026-62296 — HAPI FHIR: XHTML narrative parser unbounded recursion causes StackOverflow denial of service
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 dep…
Published: 2026-08-07 · CVSS: 7.5 · CVSS 3.1
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.
Source: CVE Program · Revision 8b16575c39f1e1810c5e863010da073d2d3285e7