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Uncontrolled Recursion

CVE-2020-26883

Severity High
Score 7.5/10

Summary

In Play Framework 2.6.x, 2.7.x before 2.7.6 and 2.8.x before 2.8.3, stack consumption can occur because of unbounded recursion during parsing of crafted JSON documents.

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

CWE-674 - Uncontrolled Recursion

The product does not properly control the amount of recursion which takes place, consuming excessive resources, such as allocated memory or the program stack.

Advisory Timeline

  • Published