Resource exhaustion in jackson-databind - CVE-2026-68497

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Resource exhaustion in jackson-databind - CVE-2026-68497

Published: August 24, 2026


Vulnerability identifier: #VU144594
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 8.7 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2026-68497
CWE-ID: CWE-400
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to cause a denial of service.

The vulnerability exists due to uncontrolled resource consumption in CoreXMLDeserializers when deserializing JSON string values into javax.xml.datatype.Duration or javax.xml.datatype.XMLGregorianCalendar fields. A remote attacker can send a specially crafted request to cause a denial of service.

The issue is reachable with the default mapper configuration and does not require polymorphic typing or special configuration.


Affected software

jackson-databind
IBM Sterling Control Center
IBM Business Automation Workflow
IBM Netezza Performance Server
IBM App Connect Enterprise
IBM Engineering Systems Design Rhapsody

How to mitigate CVE-2026-68497

Install security update from vendor's website.

jackson-databind - addressed in versions 2.18.10, 2.21.6, 2.22.2, 3.1.6, 3.2.2
IBM Sterling Control Center - addressed in versions 6.3.1.0.12, 6.4.2.0.8
IBM App Connect Enterprise - addressed in versions 12.0.12.30, 13.0.9.0
IBM Engineering Systems Design Rhapsody - addressed in versions 10.0.0.6, 10.0.1.0.7, 10.0.2.0.5, 10.0.3.0.2
IBM Netezza Performance Server - update to 11.3.1.3 IF6

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