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Uncontrolled Recursion

CVE-2024-57699

High
7.5/10

Summary

A security issue was found in Netplex Json-smart. When loading a specially crafted JSON input, containing a large number of "{", a stack exhaustion can be triggered, which could allow an attacker to cause a Denial of Service (DoS). This issue affects "net.minidev:json-smart" versions 2.5.0 through 2.5.1. This issue exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2023-1370.

  • 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.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published