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Eclipse Parsson Denial of Service vulnerability

Moderate severity GitHub Reviewed Published Nov 3, 2023 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Nov 14, 2023

Package

maven org.eclipse.parsson:project (Maven)

Affected versions

>= 1.1.0, < 1.1.4
< 1.0.5

Patched versions

1.1.4
1.0.5

Description

In Eclipse Parsson before versions 1.1.4 and 1.0.5, Parsing JSON from untrusted sources can lead malicious actors to exploit the fact that the built-in support for parsing numbers with large scale in Java has a number of edge cases where the input text of a number can lead to much larger processing time than one would expect.

To mitigate the risk, parsson put in place a size limit for the numbers as well as their scale.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Nov 3, 2023
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Nov 3, 2023
Reviewed Nov 3, 2023
Last updated Nov 14, 2023

Severity

Moderate

CVSS overall score

This score calculates overall vulnerability severity from 0 to 10 and is based on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
/ 10

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
High
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector: More severe the more the remote (logically and physically) an attacker can be in order to exploit the vulnerability.
Attack complexity: More severe for the least complex attacks.
Privileges required: More severe if no privileges are required.
User interaction: More severe when no user interaction is required.
Scope: More severe when a scope change occurs, e.g. one vulnerable component impacts resources in components beyond its security scope.
Confidentiality: More severe when loss of data confidentiality is highest, measuring the level of data access available to an unauthorized user.
Integrity: More severe when loss of data integrity is the highest, measuring the consequence of data modification possible by an unauthorized user.
Availability: More severe when the loss of impacted component availability is highest.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

EPSS score

0.044%
(11th percentile)

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2023-4043

GHSA ID

GHSA-g8p6-p27c-52fx

Source code

No known source code
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