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Denial of Service (DoS) in Jackson Dataformat CBOR

High severity GitHub Reviewed Published Dec 9, 2021 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Mar 27, 2023

Package

maven com.fasterxml.jackson.dataformat:jackson-dataformat-cbor (Maven)

Affected versions

>= 2.8.0rc1, < 2.11.4
>= 2.12.0rc1, < 2.12.1

Patched versions

2.11.4
2.12.1

Description

This affects the package com.fasterxml.jackson.dataformat:jackson-dataformat-cbor from 2.8.0-rc1 and before 2.11.4, from 2.12.0-rc1 and before 2.12.1. Unchecked allocation of byte buffer can cause a java.lang.OutOfMemoryError exception.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Feb 18, 2021
Reviewed Mar 16, 2021
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Dec 9, 2021
Last updated Mar 27, 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-2020-28491

GHSA ID

GHSA-xmc8-26q4-qjhx

Source code

Credits

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