CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2020-26882

Uncontrolled Recursion

Published: Nov 06, 2020 | Modified: Nov 10, 2020
CVSS 3.x
7.5
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.x
5 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

In Play Framework 2.6.0 through 2.8.2, data amplification can occur when an application accepts multipart/form-data JSON input.

Weakness

The product does not properly control the amount of recursion that takes place, consuming excessive resources, such as allocated memory or the program stack.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Play_framework Lightbend * 2.6.25 (including)
Play_framework Lightbend 2.7.0 (including) 2.7.5 (including)
Play_framework Lightbend 2.8.0 (including) 2.8.2 (including)

Potential Mitigations

References