Process interruption via unbounded parser memory growth
Published Sep 16, 2022 · Updated Apr 21, 2025
Uncontrolled resource consumption in Jettison 1.4.0 and earlier allows remote authenticated users to crash parsers with crafted input. The JSON object parser accepts attacker-controlled structures without bounding memory growth, exhausting the Java heap and raising OutOfMemoryError. Exposure requires a consuming application to pass user-supplied XML or JSON to the library; the consequence is process interruption, not data access or modification.
Summary
What happened
Uncontrolled resource consumption in Jettison 1.4.0 and earlier allows remote authenticated users to crash parsers with crafted input. The JSON object parser accepts attacker-controlled structures without bounding memory growth, exhausting the Java heap and raising OutOfMemoryError. Exposure requires a consuming application to pass user-supplied XML or JSON to the library; the consequence is process interruption, not data access or modification.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2022-40150
- Published
- Sep 16, 2022
- Updated
- Apr 21, 2025
- Vendor
- Jettison
- Product
- Jettison
- Classifications
- CWE-674, CWE-400, T1499.004
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- authenticated
Timeline
How it unfolded
- Sep 16, 2022CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Apr 21, 2025Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=unspecified <=1.4.0
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