#VU16786 Input validation error in jackson-databind - CVE-2018-1000873

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#VU16786 Input validation error in jackson-databind - CVE-2018-1000873

Published: January 4, 2019


Vulnerability identifier: #VU16786
Vulnerability risk: Low
CVSSv4.0: 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
Vulnerable software:
jackson-databind
Software vendor:
FasterXML

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.


Remediation

Update to version 2.9.8.

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