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High RLSA-2026:80504 1 CVE

Important: jackson-core, jackson-databind, jackson-jaxrs-providers, and jackson-modules-base security update

Published Oct 13, 2026 · Updated Oct 13, 2026

Summary

This is a multi-module project that contains Jackson-based JAX-RS providers for following data formats: JSON, Smile (binary JSON), XML, CBOR (another kind of binary JSON), YAML.

Security Fix(es):

* com.fasterxml.jackson.core/jackson-databind: tools.jackson.core/jackson-databind: jackson-databind: CPU Denial of Service via unbounded numeric parsing (CVE-2026-68497)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Fixed packages 4

ReleasePackageFixed in
Rocky Linux · 9 jackson-core 0:2.21.6-1.el9_8
Rocky Linux · 9 jackson-databind 0:2.21.6-1.el9_8
Rocky Linux · 9 jackson-jaxrs-providers 0:2.21.6-1.el9_8
Rocky Linux · 9 jackson-modules-base 0:2.21.6-1.el9_8

Vulnerabilities 1

  • High 7.5

    jackson-databind: unbounded numeric parse in Duration and XMLGregorianCalendar deserialization allows CPU denial of service

    jackson-databind binds a JSON string to a javax.xml.datatype.Duration or javax.xml.datatype.XMLGregorianCalendar field by passing the raw string verbatim to DatatypeFactory.newDuration(value) or newXMLGregorianCalendar(value) in CoreXMLDeserializers.Std._dese…

References

  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2531964
  • advisory
    https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:80504