Resource Exhaustion Affecting pki-jackson-databind package, versions <0:2.14.1-2.el9


Severity

Recommended
medium

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
4.86% (91st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL9-PKIJACKSONDATABIND-9409451
  • published15 Mar 2025
  • disclosed13 Aug 2020

Introduced: 13 Aug 2020

CVE-2020-36518  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade RHEL:9 pki-jackson-databind to version 0:2.14.1-2.el9 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2023:2312.

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 RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:9 relevant fixed versions and status.

jackson-databind before 2.13.0 allows a Java StackOverflow exception and denial of service via a large depth of nested objects.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1