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Vulnerability Intelligence

CVE-2020-28491

HIGH7.5

Denial of Service (DoS)

Published Feb 18, 2021

Modified 1 years ago

No fix available

Details

This affects the package com.fasterxml.jackson.dataformat:jackson-dataformat-cbor from 0 and before 2.11.4, from 2.12.0-rc1 and before 2.12.1. Unchecked allocation of byte buffer can cause a java.lang.OutOfMemoryError exception.

References

WEBhttps://github.com/FasterXML/jackson-dataformats-binary/commit/de072d314af8f5f269c8abec6930652af67bc8e6 WEBhttps://github.com/FasterXML/jackson-dataformats-binary/issues/186 WEBhttps://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JAVA-COMFASTERXMLJACKSONDATAFORMAT-1047329 ADVISORYhttps://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-28491 WEBhttps://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujul2022.html

CVSS Analysis

CVSS v3.1

7.5

Exploitability

Attack Vector

NetworkAV:N

Attack Complexity

LowAC:L

Privileges Required

NonePR:N

User Interaction

NoneUI:N

Scope

Scope

UnchangedS:U

Impact

Confidentiality

NoneC:N

Integrity

NoneI:N

Availability

HighA:H

7.5/CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Ecosystems

Timeline

PublishedFeb 18, 2021

ModifiedSep 16, 2024

CVE-2020-28491 | Mondoo Vulnerability Intelligence