GHSA-264P-99WQ-F4J6
Vulnerability from github – Published: 2024-01-03 22:04 – Updated: 2025-11-04 16:48Impact
A potential denial-of-service issue exists in ion-java for applications that use ion-java to:
- Deserialize Ion text encoded data, or
- Deserialize Ion text or binary encoded data into the
IonValuemodel and then invoke certainIonValuemethods on that in-memory representation.
An actor could craft Ion data that, when loaded by the affected application and/or processed using the IonValue model, results in a StackOverflowError originating from the ion-java library.
Impacted versions: <1.10.5
Patches
The patch is included in ion-java >= 1.10.5.
Workarounds
Do not load data which originated from an untrusted source or that could have been tampered with. Only load data you trust.
If you have any questions or comments about this advisory, we ask that you contact AWS/Amazon Security via our vulnerability reporting page [1] or directly via email to aws-security@amazon.com. Please do not create a public GitHub issue.
[1] https://aws.amazon.com/security/vulnerability-reporting
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"ecosystem": "Maven",
"name": "com.amazon.ion:ion-java"
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},
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}
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},
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},
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}
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],
"aliases": [
"CVE-2024-21634"
],
"database_specific": {
"cwe_ids": [
"CWE-770"
],
"github_reviewed": true,
"github_reviewed_at": "2024-01-03T22:04:08Z",
"nvd_published_at": "2024-01-03T23:15:08Z",
"severity": "HIGH"
},
"details": "### Impact\n\nA potential denial-of-service issue exists in\u00a0`ion-java`\u00a0for applications that use\u00a0`ion-java`\u00a0to:\n\n* Deserialize Ion text encoded data, or\n* Deserialize Ion text or binary encoded data into the\u00a0`IonValue`\u00a0model and then invoke certain\u00a0`IonValue`\u00a0methods on that in-memory representation.\n\nAn actor could craft Ion data that, when loaded by the affected application and/or processed using the\u00a0`IonValue`\u00a0model, results in a\u00a0`StackOverflowError`\u00a0originating from the\u00a0`ion-java`\u00a0library.\n\nImpacted versions: \u003c1.10.5\n\n### Patches\n\nThe patch is included in `ion-java` \u003e= 1.10.5.\n\n### Workarounds\n\nDo not load data which originated from an untrusted source or that could have been tampered with. **Only load data you trust.**\n\n----\n\nIf you have any questions or comments about this advisory, we ask that you contact AWS/Amazon Security via our vulnerability reporting page [1] or directly via email to [aws-security@amazon.com](mailto:aws-security@amazon.com). Please do not create a public GitHub issue.\n\n[1] https://aws.amazon.com/security/vulnerability-reporting",
"id": "GHSA-264p-99wq-f4j6",
"modified": "2025-11-04T16:48:17Z",
"published": "2024-01-03T22:04:08Z",
"references": [
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://github.com/amazon-ion/ion-java/security/advisories/GHSA-264p-99wq-f4j6"
},
{
"type": "ADVISORY",
"url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-21634"
},
{
"type": "PACKAGE",
"url": "https://github.com/amazon-ion/ion-java"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20241108-0002"
}
],
"schema_version": "1.4.0",
"severity": [
{
"score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H",
"type": "CVSS_V3"
}
],
"summary": "Ion Java StackOverflow vulnerability"
}
Sightings
| Author | Source | Type | Date |
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Nomenclature
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- Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
- Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
- Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
- Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.