CVE-2020-27196
HIGH7.5EPSS 0.53%Out-of-bounds Write in Play Framework
Published: 2/10/2022Modified: 11/8/2023
Description
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.
Affected packages (2)
- Maven/com.typesafe.play:play>= 2.6.0, < 2.7.6
- Maven/com.typesafe.play:play-java>= 2.6.0, < 2.7.6
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | HIGH7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |