CVE-2020-27196

Published Nov 6, 2020 CVSS 3.1 · 7.5 High EPSS 1.4% KEV · Not listed
Description
An issue was discovered in PlayJava in Play Framework 2.6.0 through 2.8.2. The body parsing of HTTP requests eagerly parses a payload given a Content-Type header. A deep JSON structure sent to a valid POST endpoint (that may or may not expect JSON payloads) causes a StackOverflowError and Denial of Service.

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Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2022-1032 An issue was discovered in PlayJava in Play Framework 2.6.0 through 2.8.2. The body parsing of HTTP requests eagerly parses a payload given a Content-Type header. A deep JSON structure sent to a valid POST endpoint (that may or may not expect JSON payloads) causes a StackOverflowError and Denial of Service.
Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-h48w-c35p-6m8x Out-of-bounds Write in Play Framework
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Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
mitre
Published
Updated
Aug 4, 2024, 4:11 PM
Reserved
Oct 17, 2020, 12:00 AM
Status
Modified
Published
Nov 6, 2020, 2:15 PM
Modified
Jun 17, 2026, 3:08 AM