GHSA-q6g2-g7f3-rr83

Jettison vulnerable to infinite recursion

Source: GitHub Advisory Database (reviewed) High CVE-2023-1436

Packages

Ecosystem	Package	Affected	Fixed in
Maven	org.codehaus.jettison:jettison	< 1.5.4	1.5.4

Details

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

An infinite recursion is triggered in Jettison when constructing a JSONArray from a Collection that contains a self-reference in one of its elements. This leads to a StackOverflowError exception being thrown.

References

External links from the advisory. They lead to third-party sites.

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-1436 advisory
https://github.com/jettison-json/jettison/issues/60 web
https://github.com/jettison-json/jettison/pull/62 web
https://github.com/jettison-json/jettison package
https://github.com/jettison-json/jettison/releases/tag/jettison-1.5.4 web
https://research.jfrog.com/vulnerabilities/jettison-json-array-dos-xray-427911 web