CVE-2018-18853

Summary

CVECVE-2018-18853
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2018-10-31 05:29:00 UTC
Updated2018-12-12 19:45:00 UTC
DescriptionLightbend Spray spray-json through 1.3.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource consumption) because of Algorithmic Complexity during the parsing of a field composed of many decimal digits.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-400

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Lightbend Spray-json All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
CVE-2018-18853 Denial of service when parsing a JSON object with an unexpected field that has a big number · Issue #278 · spray/spray-json · GitHub MISC github.com Exploit, Third Party Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 981114 Java (maven) Security Update for io.spray:spray-json_2.10 (GHSA-f94m-mqhr-mc29)
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