| CVE-2020-27196 | Date: (C)2020-11-06 (M)2023-12-22 |
An issue was discovered in PlayJava in Play Framework 2.6.0 through 2.8.2. The body parsing of HTTP requests eagerly parses a payload given a Content-Type header. A deep JSON structure sent to a valid POST endpoint (that may or may not expect JSON payloads) causes a StackOverflowError and Denial of Service.
CVSS Score and Metrics +CVSS Score and Metrics -| CVSS V3 Severity: | CVSS V2 Severity: |
| CVSS Score : 7.5 | CVSS Score : 5.0 |
| Exploit Score: 3.9 | Exploit Score: 10.0 |
| Impact Score: 3.6 | Impact Score: 2.9 |
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| CVSS V3 Metrics: | CVSS V2 Metrics: |
| Attack Vector: NETWORK | Access Vector: NETWORK |
| Attack Complexity: LOW | Access Complexity: LOW |
| Privileges Required: NONE | Authentication: NONE |
| User Interaction: NONE | Confidentiality: NONE |
| Scope: UNCHANGED | Integrity: NONE |
| Confidentiality: NONE | Availability: PARTIAL |
| Integrity: NONE | |
| Availability: HIGH | |
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