Protect against deeply nested JSON lists

Update `BasicJsonParser` to protect against deeply nested JSON lists
in the same way as Jackson.

Fixes gh-31868

spring-boot-project/spring-boot/src/main/java/org/springframework/boot/json/BasicJsonParser.java

@@ -37,28 +37,33 @@
  */
 public class BasicJsonParser extends AbstractJsonParser {
 
+	private static final int MAX_DEPTH = 1000;
+
 	@Override
 	public Map<String, Object> parseMap(String json) {
 		return tryParse(() -> parseMap(json, this::parseMapInternal), Exception.class);
 	}
 
 	@Override
 	public List<Object> parseList(String json) {
-		return tryParse(() -> parseList(json, this::parseListInternal), Exception.class);
+		return tryParse(() -> parseList(json, (jsonToParse) -> parseListInternal(0, jsonToParse)), Exception.class);
 	}
 
-	private List<Object> parseListInternal(String json) {
+	private List<Object> parseListInternal(int nesting, String json) {
 		List<Object> list = new ArrayList<>();
 		json = trimLeadingCharacter(trimTrailingCharacter(json, ']'), '[').trim();
 		for (String value : tokenize(json)) {
-			list.add(parseInternal(value));
+			list.add(parseInternal(nesting + 1, value));
 		}
 		return list;
 	}
 
-	private Object parseInternal(String json) {
+	private Object parseInternal(int nesting, String json) {
+		if (nesting > MAX_DEPTH) {
+			throw new IllegalStateException("JSON is too deeply nested");
+		}
 		if (json.startsWith("[")) {
-			return parseListInternal(json);
+			return parseListInternal(nesting + 1, json);
 		}
 		if (json.startsWith("{")) {
 			return parseMapInternal(json);
@@ -101,7 +106,7 @@ private Map<String, Object> parseMapInternal(String json) {
 		for (String pair : tokenize(json)) {
 			String[] values = StringUtils.trimArrayElements(StringUtils.split(pair, ":"));
 			String key = trimLeadingCharacter(trimTrailingCharacter(values[0], '"'), '"');
-			Object value = parseInternal(values[1]);
+			Object value = parseInternal(0, values[1]);
 			map.put(key, value);
 		}
 		return map;

spring-boot-project/spring-boot/src/test/java/org/springframework/boot/json/AbstractJsonParserTests.java

@@ -16,11 +16,15 @@
 
 package org.springframework.boot.json;
 
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets;
 import java.util.List;
 import java.util.Map;
 
 import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;
 
+import org.springframework.util.StreamUtils;
+
 import static org.assertj.core.api.Assertions.assertThat;
 import static org.assertj.core.api.Assertions.assertThatExceptionOfType;
 
@@ -186,4 +190,12 @@ void mapWithKeyAndNoValue() {
 		assertThatExceptionOfType(JsonParseException.class).isThrownBy(() -> this.parser.parseMap("{\"foo\"}"));
 	}
 
+	@Test // gh-31868
+	void listWithRepeatedOpenArray() throws IOException {
+		String input = StreamUtils.copyToString(
+				AbstractJsonParserTests.class.getResourceAsStream("repeated-open-array.txt"), StandardCharsets.UTF_8);
+		assertThatExceptionOfType(JsonParseException.class).isThrownBy(() -> this.parser.parseList(input)).havingCause()
+				.withMessageContaining("too deeply nested");
+	}
+
 }

spring-boot-project/spring-boot/src/test/java/org/springframework/boot/json/GsonJsonParserTests.java

@@ -16,6 +16,10 @@
 
 package org.springframework.boot.json;
 
+import java.io.IOException;
+
+import org.junit.jupiter.api.Disabled;
+
 /**
  * Tests for {@link GsonJsonParser}.
  *
@@ -28,4 +32,10 @@ protected JsonParser getParser() {
 		return new GsonJsonParser();
 	}
 
+	@Override
+	@Disabled("Gson does not protect against deeply nested JSON")
+	void listWithRepeatedOpenArray() throws IOException {
+		super.listWithRepeatedOpenArray();
+	}
+
 }

spring-boot-project/spring-boot/src/test/java/org/springframework/boot/json/YamlJsonParserTests.java

@@ -16,6 +16,8 @@
 
 package org.springframework.boot.json;
 
+import java.io.IOException;
+
 import org.junit.jupiter.api.Disabled;
 import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;
 import org.yaml.snakeyaml.constructor.ConstructorException;
@@ -53,4 +55,10 @@ void listWithMalformedMap() {
 	void mapWithKeyAndNoValue() {
 	}
 
+	@Override
+	@Disabled("SnakeYaml does not protect against deeply nested JSON")
+	void listWithRepeatedOpenArray() throws IOException {
+		super.listWithRepeatedOpenArray();
+	}
+
 }