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CVE

CVE-2020-28491

Denial of Service (DoS) in Jackson Dataformat CBOR

Description

This affects the package com.fasterxml.jackson.dataformat:jackson-dataformat-cbor from 2.8.0-rc1 and before 2.11.4, from 2.12.0-rc1 and before 2.12.1. Unchecked allocation of byte buffer can cause a java.lang.OutOfMemoryError exception.

Base CVSS

7.5

EPSS Score

0.14%

Introduced Version

2.3.2

Fix Available

2.11.4,2.12.1

Fix without Upgrading

Available Patches

Package

CVEs Fixed

Lines of Code Changed

Package Name

com.fasterxml.jackson.dataformat:jackson-dataformat-cbor

References

https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JAVA-COMFASTERXMLJACKSONDATAFORMAT-1047329

https://github.com/FasterXML/jackson-dataformats-binary/commit/3d7de83423f8f68f8e9a0c8250084e11818544c7

https://github.com/FasterXML/jackson-dataformats-binary/commit/de072d314af8f5f269c8abec6930652af67bc8e6

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-28491

https://github.com/FasterXML/jackson-dataformats-binary

https://github.com/FasterXML/jackson-dataformats-binary/issues/186

https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujul2022.html

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