GitHub Advisoryadvisory · Maven

GHSA-h46c-h94j-95f3 jackson-core can throw a StackoverflowError when processing deeply nested data

HIGH Published 2025-06-27 Modified 2025-06-27 Official page ↗
Aliases
CVE-2025-52999
Ecosystem
Maven
Packages
com.fasterxml.jackson.core:jackson-core
Severity
High
CVSS vector
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Weaknesses
CWE-121
Reviewed
2025-06-27

Affected packages

• Maven com.fasterxml.jackson.core:jackson-core: < 2.15.0 → fixed in 2.15.0

Description

Impact With older versions of jackson-core, if you parse an input file and it has deeply nested data, Jackson could end up throwing a StackoverflowError if the depth is particularly large. Patches jackson-core 2.15.0 contains a configurable limit for how deep Jackson will traverse in an input document, defaulting to an allowable depth of 1000. Change is in https://github.com/FasterXML/jackson-core/pull/943. jackson-core will throw a StreamConstraintsException if the limit is reached. jackson-databind also benefits from this change because it uses jackson-core to parse JSON inputs. Workarounds Users should avoid parsing input files from untrusted sources.

Related

Alias · CVE (1)

  • CVE-2025-52999 jackson-core contains core low-level incremental ("streaming") parser and generator abstractions used by Jackson Data Processor. vulnerability

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-121 Stack-based Buffer Overflow weakness

References