Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling Affecting com.fasterxml.jackson.core:jackson-core package, versions [2.8.0,2.21.2)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-JAVA-COMFASTERXMLJACKSONCORE-15907551
  • published5 Apr 2026
  • disclosed4 Apr 2026
  • creditanyzy2003

Introduced: 4 Apr 2026

New CVE NOT AVAILABLE CWE-770  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade com.fasterxml.jackson.core:jackson-core to version 2.21.2 or higher.

Overview

com.fasterxml.jackson.core:jackson-core is a Core Jackson abstractions, basic JSON streaming API implementation

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in the enforcement of document length constraints in blocking, async, and DataInput parser processes. An attacker can cause excessive resource consumption by submitting oversized JSON documents that bypass configured size limits.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1