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GHSA-cc4v-rvgp-2pf3

Jawn: Uncontrolled nesting depth in JSON parser

Source: GitHub Advisory Database (reviewed) High CVE-2026-59990

Packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixed in
Maven org.typelevel:jawn-parser_2.12 < 1.7.0 1.7.0
Maven org.typelevel:jawn-parser_2.13 < 1.7.0 1.7.0
Maven org.typelevel:jawn-parser_3 < 1.7.0 1.7.0

Details

As written in the advisory (Markdown source, shown as plain text).

The Jawn parser before 1.6.1 is vulnerable to a denial of service attack via untrusted input. ### Impact A remote attacker who can submit JSON to any jawn-backed parse method can exhaust JVM heap and trigger `java.lang.OutOfMemoryError`. This is treated by Scala as a fatal error and not typically handled by `scala.util.Try` or `cats.effect.IO`. ### Patches Version `1.6.1` introduces a configurable nesting-depth limit (`Parser#maxDepth`, default `4096`). Inputs deeper than the limit fail with a recoverable `ParseException` instead of exhausting heap. Users who require deeper nesting may override `maxDepth` on a `Parser` subclass. ### Workarounds - Enforce an input size limit small enough that the resulting context stack cannot exhaust heap, (e.g. http4s `EntityLimiter`). - Pre-scan untrusted input and reject documents whose maximum delimiter nesting exceeds a threshold before handing them to jawn.

References

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