Input validation error in jackson-databind - CVE-2018-1000873
Published: January 4, 2019
Vulnerability identifier: #VU16786
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2018-1000873
CWE-ID: CWE-20
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: FasterXML
Affected software:
jackson-databind
jackson-databind
Detailed vulnerability description
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient validation of user-supplied input. A remote attacker can trick the victim into deserializing of crafted input with specifically very large values in the nanoseconds field of a time value and cause the service to crash.
How to mitigate CVE-2018-1000873
Update to version 2.9.8.