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Jettison vulnerable to infinite recursion

High severity GitHub Reviewed Published Mar 22, 2023 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Mar 30, 2023

Package

maven org.codehaus.jettison:jettison (Maven)

Affected versions

< 1.5.4

Patched versions

1.5.4

Description

An infinite recursion is triggered in Jettison when constructing a JSONArray from a Collection that contains a self-reference in one of its elements. This leads to a StackOverflowError exception being thrown.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Mar 22, 2023
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Mar 22, 2023
Reviewed Mar 22, 2023
Last updated Mar 30, 2023

Severity

High
7.5
/ 10

CVSS base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2023-1436

GHSA ID

GHSA-q6g2-g7f3-rr83

Source code

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