CVE-2026-91777 Affecting pki-jackson-databind package, versions <0:2.21.6-1.el9_8.1


Severity

Recommended
high

Based on Oracle Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.45% (37th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-ORACLE9-PKIJACKSONDATABIND-21280944
  • published20 Oct 2026
  • disclosed23 Sept 2026

Introduced: 23 Sep 2026

NewCVE-2026-91777  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Oracle:9 pki-jackson-databind to version 0:2.21.6-1.el9_8.1 or higher.
This issue was patched in ELSA-2026-85231.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream pki-jackson-databind package and not the pki-jackson-databind package as distributed by Oracle. See How to fix? for Oracle:9 relevant fixed versions and status.

Forward-reference completion for @JsonIdentityInfo object IDs in FasterXML jackson-databind performs a linear scan of the pending-reference accumulator for every resolved ID. The affected paths are CollectionDeserializer.CollectionReferringAccumulator.resolveForwardReference() and the equivalent implementation in MapDeserializer. When a document first creates N unresolved object-ID references in an identity-enabled collection or map and then defines those same IDs in reverse order, completion performs on the order of N * (N + 1) / 2 identity comparisons, so a shallow document whose size grows linearly causes quadratic CPU work during deserialization. The reporter instrumented equals() calls on the ID class and measured exactly 2,003,000 comparisons at N = 2,000, against zero comparisons in the pending-reference lookup path for an equally sized control in which every reference was already resolved. The input requires no deep nesting and no syntactically unusual JSON. Exploitation requires an application that deserializes attacker-influenced JSON into an identity-enabled collection or map. The fix replaces the repeated linear lookup with a keyed pending-reference structure.

CVSS Base Scores

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