CVE-2023-5072 (GCVE-0-2023-5072)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-10-12 16:13 – Updated: 2025-02-13 17:19
VLAI
Title
DoS Vulnerability in JSON-Java
Summary
Denial of Service in JSON-Java versions up to and including 20230618.  A bug in the parser means that an input string of modest size can lead to indefinite amounts of memory being used.
Severity
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: yes Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
  • CWE-770 - Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
https://github.com/stleary/JSON-java n/a Affected: 0 , ≤ 20230618 (date)
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