CVE-2020-27196: Out-of-bounds Write

November 6, 2020 (updated November 13, 2020)

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.

References

nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-27196

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