Deserialization of Untrusted Data in jackson-databind - CVE-2022-42003

 

Deserialization of Untrusted Data in jackson-databind - CVE-2022-42003

Published: October 25, 2022 / Updated: February 11, 2025


Vulnerability identifier: #VU68635
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4.0: 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/E:U/U:Green
CVE-ID: CVE-2022-42003
CWE-ID: CWE-502
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vendor: FasterXML
Affected software:
jackson-databind

Detailed vulnerability description

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to insecure input validation when processing serialized data when the UNWRAP_SINGLE_VALUE_ARRAYS feature is enabled. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted data to the application and cause a denial of service condition on the target system.


How to mitigate CVE-2022-42003

Install updates from vendor's website.

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