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    CVE-2020-27196

    An issue was discovered in PlayJava in Play Framework 2.6.0 through 2.8.2. The body parsing of HTTP requests eagerly parses a payload given a Content-Type header. A deep JSON structure sent to a valid POST endpoint (that may or may not expect JSON payloads) causes a StackOverflowError and Denial of Service.

    Published:Nov 6, 2020
    Last Modified:Nov 21, 2024
    EPS:Nov 6, 2020
    EPSS Score:0.00526
    CVSS Score:7.5

    Affected Products

    Vendor
    Lightbend
    Product
    Play Framework

    Exploits

    No exploit reference

    Common Weakness Enumeration

    CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write

    Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

    No CAPEC recorded yet

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    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

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    Integrity
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