CVEvulnerability

CVE-2020-28923

2.7 LOW Published 2020-12-03 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗

Status: Modified
Published: 2020-12-03
Last modified: 2026-06-17
Assigner: [email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected]): 2.7 LOW — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected]): 4.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N

Description

An issue was discovered in Play Framework 2.8.0 through 2.8.4. Carefully crafted JSON payloads sent as a form field lead to Data Amplification. This affects users migrating from a Play version prior to 2.8.0 that used the Play Java API to serialize classes with protected or private fields to JSON.

Affected configurations

• lightbend play framework (>= 2.8.0 <= 2.8.4)

References

https://www.playframework.com/security/vulnerability Vendor Advisory
https://www.playframework.com/security/vulnerability/CVE-2020-28923-ImproperRemovalofSensitiveInformationBeforeStorageorTransfer Vendor Advisory
https://www.playframework.com/security/vulnerability Vendor Advisory
https://www.playframework.com/security/vulnerability/CVE-2020-28923-ImproperRemovalofSensitiveInformationBeforeStorageorTransfer Vendor Advisory