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.
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cve-icon 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

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cve-icon NVD Information

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2020-11-06T14:15:16.377

Modified: 2020-11-13T21:09:33.247


Link: CVE-2020-27196

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