CVE-2020-27196 (GCVE-0-2020-27196)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2020-11-06 13:24
Modified
2024-08-04 16:11
Severity ?
CWE
  • n/a
Summary
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.
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