VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2020-27196

CVSS score7.5 HIGH
EPSS probability1.40%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2020-11-06
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Description

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.

Weakness classification

  • nvd@nist.gov: CWE-787

Primary references