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FKIE_CVE-2026-68496

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2026-10-01 18:17 - Updated: 2026-10-01 19:17

Severity

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

Summary

The Smile parser in FasterXML jackson-dataformats-binary never invokes StreamReadConstraints.validateNameLength() when decoding JSON object property names, so the maxNameLength limit is not enforced for this format. SmileParser._handleLongFieldName() grows its internal name buffer through an unconstrained _growArrayTo() call and performs no length validation. An attacker who can have a Smile document parsed may therefore embed a single property name of unbounded length; the parser buffers the whole name in memory before returning it, whatever maxNameLength is configured to. Because StreamReadConstraints.maxDocumentLength is also disabled by default, nothing else bounds the name under default settings, so the only limits are the attacker's upload capacity and available heap, leading to memory exhaustion and denial of service. No privileges beyond the ability to submit data to a parsing endpoint are required, and exploitation needs only that the bytes reach SmileFactory parsing, directly or through an ObjectMapper configured with the Smile module. jackson-core's own JSON parsers enforce maxNameLength incrementally during name decoding; this gap is specific to the binary formats. maxNameLength and validateNameLength were introduced in jackson-core 2.16.0, so releases before 2.16.0 do not contain the constraint that is left unenforced. This issue is tracked together with the CBOR parser defect in the same vendor advisory, GHSA-3v8f-v6vx-fmrm, which covers both binary formats. The Smile parser defect (jackson-dataformats-binary issue #726) is CVE-2026-68496; the CBOR parser defect (issue #725) is assigned CVE-2026-68495.

References

	URL	Tags
	36c7be3b-2937-45df-85ea-ca7133ea542c	https://github.com/FasterXML/jackson-dataformats-binary/blob/2.18/release-notes/VERSION-2.x
	36c7be3b-2937-45df-85ea-ca7133ea542c	https://github.com/FasterXML/jackson-dataformats-binary/issues/726
	36c7be3b-2937-45df-85ea-ca7133ea542c	https://github.com/FasterXML/jackson-dataformats-binary/security/advisories/GHSA-3v8f-v6vx-fmrm
	36c7be3b-2937-45df-85ea-ca7133ea542c	https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-68495
	134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0	https://github.com/FasterXML/jackson-dataformats-binary/security/advisories/GHSA-3v8f-v6vx-fmrm

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version

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CVE-2026-68496 (GCVE-0-2026-68496)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-10-01 17:36 – Updated: 2026-10-01 18:15

Title

jackson-dataformats-binary: Smile parser does not enforce StreamReadConstraints.maxNameLength, enabling memory-exhaustion denial of service

Summary

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: poc Automatable: yes Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2026-10-01 18:15 UTC

CWE

CWE-770 - Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
CWE-400 - Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

Assigner

HeroDevs mitre root Scorecard

References

4 references

URL	Tags
https://github.com/FasterXML/jackson-dataformats-…	vendor-advisory
https://github.com/FasterXML/jackson-dataformats-…	patch
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-68495	related
https://github.com/FasterXML/jackson-dataformats-…	release-notes

Impacted products

2 products

Vendor	Product	Version
FasterXML	jackson-dataformats-binary	Affected: 2.16.0 , ≤ 2.18.9 (maven) Affected: 2.19.0 , ≤ 2.21.5 (maven) Affected: 2.22.0 , ≤ 2.22.1 (maven)
FasterXML	jackson-dataformats-binary	Affected: 3.0.0 , ≤ 3.1.5 (maven) Affected: 3.2.0 , ≤ 3.2.1 (maven)

Credits

tinyb0y

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