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.
References
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https://www.playframework.com/security/vulnerability | Vendor Advisory |
https://www.playframework.com/security/vulnerability/CVE-2020-27196-DosViaJsonStackOverflow | Vendor Advisory |
History
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MITRE Information
Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published: 2020-11-06T13:24:18
Updated: 2020-11-06T13:24:18
Reserved: 2020-10-17T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2020-27196
JSON object: View
NVD Information
Status : Analyzed
Published: 2020-11-06T14:15:16.377
Modified: 2020-11-13T21:09:33.247
Link: CVE-2020-27196
JSON object: View
Redhat Information
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CWE