UBUNTU-CVE-2018-1000873

    Dashboard / Vulnerabilities / UBUNTU-CVE-2018-1000873

    UBUNTU-CVE-2018-1000873

    Published: 20 Dec 2018Last Modified: 20 May 2026

    Summary:

    Details: Fasterxml Jackson version Before 2.9.8 contains a CWE-20: Improper Input Validation vulnerability in Jackson-Modules-Java8 that can result in Causes a denial-of-service (DoS). This attack appear to be exploitable via The victim deserializes malicious input, specifically very large values in the nanoseconds field of a time value. This vulnerability appears to have been fixed in 2.9.8.

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-1000873, https://github.com/FasterXML/jackson-modules-java8/issues/90, https://github.com/FasterXML/jackson-modules-java8/pull/87, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-1000873

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: jackson-databind

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/jackson-databind?arch=source&distro=esm-infra-legacy%2Ftrusty

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    2.2.2-1
    2.2.2-1ubuntu0.1~esm1

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High