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CVE-2020-27196

An issue was discovered in PlayJava in Play Framework 2.6.0 through 2.8.2. The body parsing of HTTP requests eagerly parses a payload given a Content-Type header. A deep JSON structure sent to a valid POST endpoint (that may or may not expect JSON payloads) causes a StackOverflowError and Denial of Service.

Published

2020-11-06T14:15:16.377

Last Modified

2024-11-21T05:20:51.060

Status

Modified

Source

[email protected]

Severity

CVSSv3.1: 7.5 (HIGH)

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Access Vector: NETWORK
Access Complexity: LOW
Authentication: NONE
Confidentiality Impact: NONE
Integrity Impact: NONE
Availability Impact: PARTIAL

Exploitability Score

10.0

Impact Score

2.9

Weaknesses

Type: Primary
CWE-787

Affected Vendors & Products

Type	Vendor	Product	Version/Range	Vulnerable?
Application	lightbend	play_framework	≤ 2.6.25	Yes
Application	lightbend	play_framework	≤ 2.7.5	Yes
Application	lightbend	play_framework	≤ 2.8.2	Yes

References

https://www.playframework.com/security/vulnerability Vendor Advisory ([email protected])
https://www.playframework.com/security/vulnerability/CVE-2020-27196-DosViaJsonStackOverflow Vendor Advisory ([email protected])
https://www.playframework.com/security/vulnerability Vendor Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://www.playframework.com/security/vulnerability/CVE-2020-27196-DosViaJsonStackOverflow Vendor Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)