Vulnerabilities > CVE-2020-27196 - Out-of-bounds Write vulnerability in Lightbend Play Framework

047910
CVSS 5.0 - MEDIUM
Attack vector
NETWORK
Attack complexity
LOW
Privileges required
NONE
Confidentiality impact
NONE
Integrity impact
NONE
Availability impact
PARTIAL
network
low complexity
lightbend
CWE-787

Summary

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.

Vulnerable Configurations

Part Description Count
Application
Lightbend
185

Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)