CVE-2026-110974 (GCVE-0-2026-110974)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-10-22 08:52 – Updated: 2026-10-22 08:52
VLAI
Title
Uncontrolled Recursion on Nested JSON Allows Denial of Service in android-json
Summary
The org.json parser in com.vaadin.external.google:android-json recurses once per nesting level with no depth limit: JSONTokener.nextValue() calls readArray() and readObject(), which call nextValue() again. A deeply nested JSON document, around 20 KB of nested arrays with the default thread stack, makes the JSONArray and JSONObject constructors throw a raw java.lang.StackOverflowError instead of a JSONException. Any application that parses untrusted JSON with this library can be made to fail the thread doing the parsing. The artifact is a 2013 repackage of third-party org.json classes, published once and never maintained, and no fixed version will be released. Users of the affected version should apply the following mitigation. Product version com.vaadin.external.google:android-json 0.0.20131108.vaadin1 Mitigation No fixed version will be released. Replace the artifact with an org.json implementation that limits the nesting depth, such as org.json:json 20231013 or later. Artifacts Maven coordinates / Vulnerable versions / Fixed version com.vaadin.external.google:android-json / 0.0.20131108.vaadin1 / none
Severity
6.3 (Medium)
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CWE
Assigner
Vaadin CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard – unranked: 6 records in the last 180 days, 10 needed details
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
vaadin android-json Affected: 0 , ≤ 0.0.20131108.vaadin1 (maven)
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Credits
刘春燕 (Liu Chunyan), Fudan University
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