CVE-2023-5072

Summary

CVECVE-2023-5072
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2023-10-12 17:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-10-18 18:17:00 UTC
DescriptionDenial of Service in JSON-Java versions up to and including 20230618.  A bug in the parser means that an input string of modest size can lead to indefinite amounts of memory being used. 

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-770

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Json-java Project Json-java All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Confusion between `\0` and EOF can lead to OutOfMemoryError · Issue #758 · stleary/JSON-java · GitHub MISC github.com
Logic to exclude object keys that are themselves objects is imperfect · Issue #771 · stleary/JSON-java · GitHub MISC github.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 379281 IBM MQ Denial of Service (DoS) Vulnerabilities (7096710)
  • 379559 Atlassian Bitbucket Data Center and Server org.json:json Dependency Denial of Service (DoS) Vulnerability (BSERV-19037)
  • 510680 Alpine Linux Security Update for openjdk17
  • 510683 Alpine Linux Security Update for openjdk21
  • 731171 Atlassian Confluence Data Center and Server Multiple Security Vulnerabilities (CONFSERVER-94236, CONFSERVER-94109, CONFSERVER-94111, CONFSERVER-94110)
  • 731314 Atlassian Jira Software Data Center and Server Denial of Service (DoS) Vulnerability (JSWSERVER-25788)
  • 731340 Atlassian Bamboo Server and Data Center Third Party Dependency Vulnerability (BAM-25607, BAM-25498)
  • 995571 Java (Maven) Security Update for org.json:json (GHSA-rm7j-f5g5-27vv)
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