CVEvulnerability
CVE-2020-27196
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2020-11-06
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-787
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 configurations
• lightbend play framework (<= 2.6.25)
• lightbend play framework (>= 2.7.0 <= 2.7.5)
• lightbend play framework (>= 2.8.0 <= 2.8.2)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write weakness
References
- https://www.playframework.com/security/vulnerability Vendor Advisory
- https://www.playframework.com/security/vulnerability/CVE-2020-27196-DosViaJsonStackOverflow Vendor Advisory
- https://www.playframework.com/security/vulnerability Vendor Advisory
- https://www.playframework.com/security/vulnerability/CVE-2020-27196-DosViaJsonStackOverflow Vendor Advisory