CVE-2025-52999 (GCVE-0-2025-52999)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-06-25 17:02 – Updated: 2025-06-25 18:04
VLAI
Title
jackson-core Has Potential for StackoverflowError if user parses an input file that contains very deeply nested data
Summary
jackson-core contains core low-level incremental ("streaming") parser and generator abstractions used by Jackson Data Processor. In versions prior to 2.15.0, if a user parses an input file and it has deeply nested data, Jackson could end up throwing a StackoverflowError if the depth is particularly large. jackson-core 2.15.0 contains a configurable limit for how deep Jackson will traverse in an input document, defaulting to an allowable depth of 1000. jackson-core will throw a StreamConstraintsException if the limit is reached. jackson-databind also benefits from this change because it uses jackson-core to parse JSON inputs. As a workaround, users should avoid parsing input files from untrusted sources.
Severity
8.7 (High)
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: yes Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-06-25 18:04 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-121 - Stack-based Buffer Overflow
Assigner
GitHub_M CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard C 72/100 over 8072 records in the last 180 days details
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
FasterXML jackson-core Affected: < 2.15.0
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