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

February 10, 2022

An issue was discovered in PlayJava in Play Framework 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

github.com/advisories/GHSA-h48w-c35p-6m8x
github.com/playframework/playframework/pull/10321
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-27196
www.playframework.com/security/vulnerability/CVE-2020-27196-DosViaJsonStackOverflow

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