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Medium · 5.9 CVE-2023-1436 EUVD-2023-1077GHSA-q6g2-g7f3-rr83

Infinite recursion in Jettison leads to denial of service when creating a crafted JSONArray

Published Mar 16, 2023 · Updated Feb 26, 2025 · Assigned by JFROG

Description

An infinite recursion is triggered in Jettison when constructing a JSONArray from a Collection that contains a self-reference in one of its elements. This leads to a StackOverflowError exception being thrown.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
jettison jettison < 1.5.4 1.5.4

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian 14 libjettison-java 1.5.4-1 —
Debian 13 libjettison-java 1.5.4-1 —
Debian 12 libjettison-java No fix yet —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 26.10 libjettison-java No fix yet —
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS libjettison-java No fix yet —
Ubuntu 25.10 libjettison-java No fix yet —
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS libjettison-java No fix yet —
Show 4 more (older releases, extended support, other products)
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu Pro 22.04 LTS libjettison-java 1.4.1-1ubuntu0.22.04.1+esm1 USN-6179-1
Ubuntu Pro 20.04 LTS libjettison-java 1.4.0-1ubuntu0.20.04.1+esm1 USN-6179-1
Ubuntu Pro 18.04 LTS libjettison-java 1.4.0-1ubuntu0.18.04.1~esm2 USN-6179-1
Ubuntu Pro 16.04 LTS libjettison-java 1.2-3ubuntu0.1~esm2 USN-6179-1
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Red Hat Single Sign On 7 rh-sso7-keycloak +1 18.0.9-1.redhat_00001.1.el7sso RHSA-2023:4920, RHSA-2023:4919, RHSA-2023:4918
Red Hat Ocp Tools 4 jenkins 2.401.1.1686680404-3.el8 RHSA-2023:3663, RHSA-2023:3622
Red Hat Ocp Tools 4 jenkins-2-plugins 4.11.1686831822-1.el8 RHSA-2023:3663, RHSA-2023:3622
Red Hat JBoss EAP 7 eap7-jettison 1.5.4-1.redhat_00002.1.el7eap RHSA-2023:4507, RHSA-2023:4506, RHSA-2023:4505
Red Hat JBoss EAP 7 eap7-undertow 2.2.25-3.SP3_redhat_00001.1.el7eap RHSA-2023:4507, RHSA-2023:4506, RHSA-2023:4505
Red Hat JBoss EAP 7 eap7-wildfly +4 7.4.12-3.GA_redhat_00003.1.el7eap RHSA-2023:4507, RHSA-2023:4506, RHSA-2023:4505
Red Hat JBoss EAP 7 eap7-wildfly-java-jdk17 7.4.12-3.GA_redhat_00003.1.el8eap RHSA-2023:4507, RHSA-2023:4506
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
openSUSE Tumbleweed jettison 1.5.4-1.1 openSUSE-SU-2024:12871-1
openSUSE Leap 15.4 jettison 1.5.4-150200.3.7.1 SUSE-SU-2023:1948-1

Amazon Linux

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Amazon Linux 2 jettison +1 1.3.3-4.amzn2.0.2 ALAS2-2023-2053

Wolfi

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Wolfi rolling druid 34.0.0-r6 —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
Maven org.codehaus.jettison:jettison < 1.5.4 1.5.4 GHSA-q6g2-g7f3-rr83

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