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Uncontrolled Resource Consumption in com.fasterxml.jackson.core:jackson-databind

CVE-2021-46877

  • com.fasterxml.jackson.core:jackson-databind
High
7.5/10

Summary

The package jackson-databind versions 2.10.0.pr1 through 2.12.5 and 2.13.0-rc1 through 2.13.0 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (2 GB transient heap usage per read) in uncommon situations involving JsonNode JDK serialization.

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
  • NONE
  • UNCHANGED
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • HIGH

CWE-400 - Uncontrolled resource consumption

An uncontrolled resource allocation attack (also known as resource exhaustion attack) triggers unauthorized overconsumption of the limited resources in an application, such as memory, file system storage, database connection pool entries, and CPU. This may lead to denial of service for valid users and degradation of the application's functionality as well as that of the host operating system.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published